Capilano Courier // Volume 48 // Issue 4

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NORTH VANCOUVER, SEPTEMBER 29TH 2014

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Cheryl Swan Art Director

Gabriel Scorgie Opinions Editor

Carlo Javier Lifestyle Editor

Ricky Bao Business Manager

Brandon Kostinuk Web Editor

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS:

Sydney Sherwood, Michael Letendre, Alicia Neptune, Rozan Talebain, Christine Beyleveldt, Katherine Gillard, Simon Thistlewood, Jackson Weaver, Rosanna Hemple, Cianda Bourrel, Ben Bengtson, Scott Barkemeyer, Sam MacDonald CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS:

Katie So, Marla White, Danielle Mainman, Chris Dedinsky , Olliemoonsta, Samantha Smith, Tierney Milne, Arin Ringwald, Taylor Lee, Megan Collinson, Sydney Parent, Ksenia Kozhevnikova, Anthony Labonte, Nancy Caldwell

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The Capilano Courier is an autonomous, democratically run student newspaper. Literary and visual submissions are welcomed. All submissions are subject to editing for brevity, taste, and legality. The Capilano Courier will not publish material deemed by the collective to exhibit sexism, racism or homophobia. The views expressed by the contributing writers are not necessarily those of the Capilano Courier Publishing Society.

Letter From The Editor Leah Scheitel, Editor-in-Chief

all by myself “You can't spell 'alone' without the word 'one'. Isn't that the point?"

- Andrew Palmquist At the beginning of September, I was in Whistler, working for the GranFondo bike race. After an 18hour day of work (that’s right, I was up at 2 am, working, while getting booty calls from drunk Tinders), my friend Bri and I were walking back to the hotel after one celebratory beer got us wasted. After passing a couple of guys on their way to party, one of them checked us out before saying, “Hey girls, you alone?”

This struck me as odd and slightly stupid, so much so that I turned around and asked, “Seriously, do you need to look up the definition of alone? I could not be any more not alone right now. I just spent over 12 hours with this girl and we are still hanging out. Look up what alone means, because it doesn’t mean ‘not with a man’.” Bri’s mouth dropped a little, then she started laughing, which made the guy even more uncomfortable than having an angry, slightly drunk girl give him a lecture on the meaning of a basic word. He hurried in the other direction, surely re-thinking his approach to hitting on women.

Being a single lady who likes doing things on her own, this is something that I encounter often – unsolicited attempts to get in my pants. Last week, while watching Chet Faker at the Commodore, I was approached by not one, but three different guys, all thinking that because I was alone, I was easy prey for some dirty dancing and maybe a public make out session. But I just wanted to see the babe on the stage perform some of my favourite songs before going to bed with my two cats. I wasn’t there to meet men, or even women for that matter. There was a reason I went alone, and it’s because I wanted to enjoy the show surrounded by my own thoughts.

This is a generalization, and some of these guys may just want to talk to me because I look like I would have some interesting opinions on Oprah’s defining moments or the upcoming municipal election, but I doubt it. And even if they did want to talk to me, a noisy concert is not the place to strike up a casual conversation, unless you want to hear “What?!?” between every sentence. One guy used the noise for an excuse to close talk, and whispered things into my ear. He thought he was clever, and I thought he was creepy.

The unsolicited approaching of women came up in conversation later in the week. Our Features Editor, Faye, said that she had the same issue when going to shows or concerts alone, and even was hit on when she was with her male friends. But what we ultimately both agreed on is the importance of doing things alone. Friends are great and being social is a key element to a healthy lifestyle, but there is liberation in doing things completely solo. Going to a movie, because you want to see it, even if you can’t find a friend to accompany you. Venturing to a random neighbourhood and going for a nice din-

ner, entirely alone. Yeah, sure, you’ll get some looks, and you may even get a sympathy stare from the waiter, but that’s okay. Just say that you’re not alone, because if you’re comfortable with your company, then you aren’t.

Doing things alone also opens up opportunities that wouldn’t be there if you went with other people, even close friends. I still get looks of surprise when I tell people that I went on a 10-day road trip the States this summer, all by myself. When crossing the border, the border guard was judgmental of my choice. “Who goes to Colorado to sit in a cabin by themself?” he asked. And I said every girl with a broken heart should. By venturing solo, I was able to meet a childhood idol (it’s detailed in last week’s editorial) and fall in love with Jackson, Wyoming. And when I got to Colorado, I drank wine, ate vegetables, sat in a hot tub and smoked Marlboro Lights for days on end. I didn’t leave my tiny oasis, and I didn’t need to. I was content with books and reruns of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. I also didn’t put on pants or wear my fake denture teeth for days, and that was glorious.

Being alone is a skill, just like how networking and meeting people is a skill. If you can learn to enjoy your own company as well as the company of others, you’ll open up opportunities that wouldn’t be available if you were only comfortable on the opposite side of the spectrum. If you have never been to a movie alone, try it. It’s probably the best place to start, as movie theatres are dark, and people usually don’t talk through the movie anyways (and if they do, they are dicks). And, at the end of it all, it’s worth putting up with a few looks from others. I’m so used to going places alone that I’m not offended by the looks of pity. I actually take them as looks of jealousy, from people who want to be able to go to dinner by themselves but are too nervous to. And the advances from the men who see a solo girl as a target, I’m complimented by it. It can get annoying at times, but there is not ill-intention behind them. So here is a challenge to you, Dear Reader, take this copy of the Courier to a random café on your way home, order yourself a nice coffee, and read it cover to cover while sitting by yourself. See what happens: do you get the weird looks, does someone hit on you, or do you start up an intelligent conversation about different topics with the stranger at the table next to you. That likely wouldn’t happen if you took me there with you. So enjoy being alone, and let us know how it goes.

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<I> don’t know. Just kidding, I do know. They’re there to remind us to change words into italics before going to press — except when we forget to change words into italics, then they’re just mistakes. Think about this though: every italicized word you see in our newspaper once had <i>two<i> of these little things around it, which were probably circled in red pen by up to three humans, highlighted on a computer screen by a fourth human, deleted and finally replaced with proper formatting. So much room for error, but this is how we do it in the newspaper business.

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I have to print your photo because it’s hilarious.

Things Drake Do @ThingsDrakeDo 1991. Drake is in kindergarten. He recites the alphabet, "...Q, R, S, T, V. There is no U. There is only her."

Things Drake Do @ThingsDrakeDo New York. A girl approaches Drake on the street and asks for directions. Taking her hands, he looks deep into her eyes. "Follow your heart."

Things Drake Do @ThingsDrakeDo Battery's low. Drake plugs in his iPhone & it asks "Trust this computer?"

He takes a moment and sighs "I don't know who to trust anymore."

Things Drake Do @ThingsDrakeDo Drake is asked by a young boy, "which came first, the chicken or the egg?"

Drake responds, "She comes first, she always comes first."

Things Drake Do @ThingsDrakeDo A hotel. Despite entering the WiFi password, "Unable to establish a connection" flashes up on Drake's laptop.

He sighs. "Story of my life."

Things Drake Do @ThingsDrakeDo 1:03 AM. An officer is called to a reported break-in. "Is anything missing?" he asks.

Drake stares out of a broken window and sighs. "Her."

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Things Drake Do @ThingsDrakeDo A small boy clumsily loses his grip on a balloon. Drake appears, places a hand on his shoulder & whispers, "If you love her, let her go."

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What’s with those <i> things all over your paper last week?

Things Drake Do @ThingsDrakeDo 1990. Drake is sitting on Santa Claus’s lap.

“What would you like this year young man?", Santa asks.

Drake sighs, “One more chance.”

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a national concern ENTEROVIRUS D68 OUTBREAK AND HOW TO PREVENT IT Sydney Sherwood × Writer Now that the teacher’s strike has finally ended and children are back to school, parents are turning their concerns to a new issue: schoolyard sicknesses. This influx of sick children is known as the ‘September Spike’, referring to the common occurrence of sniffles and upset stomachs kids suffer from in the fall.

However, there is a new virus that has made its way onto playgrounds in North America.

Far more serious than other childhood illnesses, the rare virus known as Enterovirus D-68 (EVD68) affects the respiratory system of infants, children and teenagers. “Most EV-D68 cases present themselves with only mild or moderate cold-like symptoms”, says Laurie Robertson, a pediatric nurse at the Misericordia Community Hospital in Edmonton. “There isn’t much to worry about unless your child starts to develop wheezing or has any difficulty breathing.” A confirmation of EV-D68 may result in immediate hospitalisation of the victim and is put on respirators to feed them oxygen.

Enterovirus is not a disease or illness in itself, it is a particular type of virus that replicates and infects its host. An enterovirus is specifically a singlestranded RNA virus, with currently 68 specific enteroviruses identified. Only a small amount of them even affect humans, but it's dangerous when they do like the crippling polio virus which fortunately doesn't exist in Canada. Enteroviruses that are commonly seen in the country are Coxsackie A19 and EV-71, both of which have led to outbreaks of hand-foot-and-mouth diseases in children.

First coming to the attention of medical officials in the US around mid-August, there have now been at least 175 confirmed cases of EV-D68 in 27 American states. According to CBC, EV-D68 has been making its way into Canada with 18 confirmed cases in Alberta: five in Edmonton, 10 in

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Calgary and three in more rural areas. BC is not free from the virus either, as three cases have now been confirmed in the Lower Mainland by the BC Centre for Disease Control. Fortunately, there hasn’t any

deaths related to EV-D68 in the US or Canada.

EV-D68 spreads as does the common cold: by coughing, sneezing, and touching infected surfaces.

In an interview with The Province, Dr. Upton Allen, chief of infectious diseases at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children stated the symptoms of the virus, "If children that are developing signs of respiratory distress, with more laboured breathing, more rapid breathing, losing their appetite, then they really should be seeking medical attention, particularly going to the emergency department."

The respiratory virus affects children with asthma, but most cases are milder with symptoms presenting themselves as fever, runny nose, coughing, sneezing, and body or muscle aches. In more mild cases, health officials state that the best treatment method is to keep sick children at home and away from others, give them plenty of bed rest and fluids, and monitor their breathing as EV-D68 has been known to deepen into pneumonia. “Although there are not currently any medications or vaccinations specifically for EV-D68, children having difficulties breathing would be given medication to help their airways relax,” says Maria Santos, a nurse at Eagle Ridge Hospital in Port Moody.

“Make sure to wash your hands, especially after being in a public place. If you are going to sneeze, sneeze into your elbow and not your hand. And most importantly, if you or your children get sick, stay home. The enterovirus is being passed along just like the common cold. The prevention techniques are the same,” notes Robertson, “If you notice your child’s condition worsening, take them immediately to the hospital emergency, especially if they are under five.” While Robertson has not personally treated any of the children with EV-D68, she states that the outlook is positive in Edmonton as no new cases of EV-68 have been confirmed and the conditions of the hospitalised children seem to be improving.

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A LOOK INTO THE 2015 FIELD SCHOOL

Carlo Javier

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“No matter what you do, where you go, where you study, or what field that you go into, your ability to communicate with the people that you work with, in the society that you live in, is vitally important,” says Robin Furby, a Capilano University business professor and lead organizer for the 2015 London Field School.

During the reading break of the coming spring semester, CapU will hold its third ever London Field School where students will get the chance to spend several days in London, and even gain three credits in International Business Communication.

Proposing London as a destination was an easy decision for Furby, who’s been leading the trip for the past two years. Born and raised in the southeast of England, he has the know-how and connections in terms of London-based businesses to visit, and tourist spots to see. “Because we live in a global society now, having that international communication ability was even more important. So by going to London, a city that speaks the same language, has a relatively similar culture, I wanted to try and allow students the opportunity and dispel some of the myths they

might have,” says Furby, “Such as travelling to London is easy, because it’s the same language.

There are certain things that are easy, but there are certain things about the British culture that they wouldn’t necessarily understand without actually physically going there.”

Despite London sharing some cultural similarities with Canada, participating students should still be wary of some challenges they will face. “It’s the feeling of the unknown,” says Furby, “Being in a place, in a country, where things are different. If you’ve never travelled or you’ve never been abroad before, that could be one of the things that you struggle with, the feeling of not being sure of yourself.” However, the challenges of a new culture and country are all overshadowed by the benefits of studying abroad. “[Students] can really have the benefit of travelling with people who are really experienced and having that support network around you, the students, the faculty and also the university,” says Furby, “If challenges come up that are beyond control, with regards to travel, with regards to weather, you do have the backing of the university as well.”

One of the lesser-known facts about CapU’s academic trips is that there are two different

kinds of excursions. The 2015 trip to London qualifies as a short-term field school — it’s often the option preferred by students who have never had the chance to leave the country and want to test the waters with a 10-day trip. Qualifying for the short-term field school is simple — it requires having a good academic standing and students who are interested don’t have to be from a particular program. For the longer field school, which lasts up to four months, a GPA of at least 3.0 is required, the student must be in a degree program, must have earned at least 60 credits before going, and complete at least one full semester upon their return.

“I think I find that a lot of students who do the short-term program do it for the reason that they want to eventually do a full semester exchange,” begins Yvonne Leung, International Partnerships Officer at the CapU Centre for International Experience (CIE), “They want to know if they can travel on their own and the short-term field schools have a really structured way of travelling.”

As for the trip destinations, those decisions are left primarily to the faculty. “Within the field schools, countries come up as proposals for the faculty,” says Leung, “So if a faculty member

has a course and they really think that teaching this course in a certain country enforces the learning outcome of students, then they would travel to that country. It’s really up to the faculty to choose the destination.”

On the other hand, the country selection process for semester-long trips is much different. Students who qualify for the longer trips are asked to submit their top three choices of destination, and sometimes only a single student gets the chance to study in a certain country. Groups are also not out of the question. CapU’s partner in Austria accepted six students for a semester in their exchange program — three from the school of business and three from the school of communications.

Beyond the academic benefits and beyond the chance to live in another country, Furby maintains that one of the most profound results of studying abroad is the possibility of creating life-long bonds. “That sense of camaraderie isn’t lost the moment you get back, you create lifelong friends.”

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on the way up MIXED OUTLOOKS FOR THE CITY OF SURREY Michael Letendre × Writer Surrey is BC’s boom-town, and it’s poised to pass Vancouver as the biggest city in the province. The City of Surrey is expected to outgrow Vancouver by 2041, with a population estimated at 760,000 residents. Surrey has been named the number one city for investment in BC four years in a row by the Real Estate Investment Network.

Surrey City Councillor Bruce Hayne says low property costs are part of the reason the city is experiencing such a remarkable rate of growth and development. For young families that are just starting out, he adds, moving to Surrey is an attractive prospect because it’s where they will get the most for their money. “Clearly Surrey is considerably more affordable, and it’s still very commutable if you have to commute,” Hayne says.

Families aren’t the only ones that benefit from Surrey’s low prices and good location. “From a logistics perspective for businesses, it’s pretty attractive as well,” Hayne continues, “We’ve got two border crossings, we’ve got a deep sea port and now we have the South Fraser Perimeter Road hooking up to Highway One.” Companies that have outgrown themselves in neighboring cities have been flocking to Surrey.

Developers have also been taking advantage of the opportunities that the city has to offer. Some

of the major developments in the city are the Chuck Bailey Recreation Centre, the City Centre Library and Surrey City Centre, home to the new City Hall. In an effort to give Surrey more appeal as a destination, these new developments also have bold architectural designs.

But with such staggering growth also comes some growing pains. Among some of the problems the city is facing is their out-dated road and transit system. “We cannot absorb the kind of population growth that we’re predicting with the road infrastructure that we have,” notes Hayne.

One of the plans Surrey has to ease congestion is the construction of a light rail transit system that would connect various city centers in Surrey to as far as Langley. Another one of the major challenges faced by the city is preserving green space. “We’ve got about 1,000 people moving to Surrey each and every month and we have to build out in a sustainable manner,” adds Hayne.

For a city where a third of all land mass is agricultural, maintaining the current level of biological diversity in the city is a high priority. “Roughly 7,500 acres needed to maintain biodiversity,” says Hayne. To put it in perspective, Hayne says that the land Surrey will need is about the size of seven Stanley Parks. While 6,500 acres are going to remain untouched solely for the purpose of green space and biodiversity, the city has plans to acquire the remaining 1,000 acres over the next several

× Danielle Mainman decades. “At about a million dollars an acre, that’s about a billion dollar proposition,” he notes.

Pressure on municipal infrastructures is also keenly felt. With about 10,000 people moving to Surrey every year, schools have become overcrowded to the point that parents have taken to the streets to protest. Hayne says that’s because the Ministry of Education won’t build schools where new developments are built. “They will only build a school there once those families have moved in. At that point it’s playing catch up.”

Surrey’s Manager of Community Planning, Don Luymes, thinks the city might soon be able

to finally catch up with its developments. He believes the rate of growth, while staying robust, is going to start to slow down. “It’s getting more difficult for developers to find and assemble properties for building neighborhoods. And a greater proportion of our housing is becoming multi-family and those kinds of products are more complicated to bring to market for developers,” he argues.

There is only so much land to go around, and Luymes suggests that the day when Surrey runs out of empty, developable land is not far away.

“In about 30 years we will have used up all the land that is rural and not in the Agricultural Land Reserve,” he says, “It’s going to be more important to us to find ways of densifying within our existing urban footprint, rather than extending into new neighborhoods.” Luymes believes the answer to maintaining growth in the city is to increase density near the town cores and along the transit lines.

Density is a subject that always comes up when new developments are being made, and it’s something Hayne has come to terms with. “One thing I’ve learned in my brief career in politics is it seems to me the perfect number of people in any given community is achieved the day that you move in and then after that it’s too dense.”

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HONOURING RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL SURVIVORS

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“Although I didn’t attend residential school myself, knowing that my grandmother did, I feel like it totally unraveled a part of my life that I didn’t even realize. So after hearing her story about her experience at the residential school and hearing the other survivors [stories] I was sort of lost in a way. I didn’t know how to feel, whether it was to be sad or furious,” says Taylor George-Hollis, First Nations Students’ Liaison at Capilano University.

The first annual Truth and Reconciliation Week at CapU took place from Sept. 22 to 26. This event was created in honour of Indian Residential School survivors. In past years, CapU’s First Nations Collective has hosted a Pow Wow but this year a week-long celebration was planned in its place. “Instead of having a Pow Wow we can have almost like a Coast Salish kind of gathering, almost like what happened with the 2010 Olympics. I thought I would include our neighbouring nations,” says George-Hollis. “I invited the Tsleil-Waututh, Musqueam and Lil’ wat and even Squamish nation singers, drummers and dancers as well, to represent a Coast Salish or even Interior Salish culture of drumming and singing.”

In the 1870s, the federal government funded the education of Aboriginal children by developing the Indian Residential School System while the churches were appointed to run it.

They believed that this education system would make the children adapt to the Western civilization. “It began by the government sending the First Nations children to the residential school so that they would lose their culture and their traditional upbringing,” explains George-Hollis. These schools sought to com-

Nole — a poetry and music potluck, a Chatlive on racism issues with CapU instructor Reg Johanson and a keynote address by Stephen Kafwi, the former premier of the Northwest Territories and past president of the Dene Nation.

This year’s celebration touched upon a variety of issues concerning the Aboriginal community.

It showcased not only their traditions and cultures but their environmental advocacies as well.

“It will start the awareness of the First Nations and Aboriginal peoples’ history. What I really appreciated last year is that even the teachers [at CapU] are aware of what the First Nations students’ ancestors went through because the effects of residential school is intergenerational,” says George-Hollis. “Now that I’m aware of the effects of residential schools I feel like it makes me that much more passionate to share the culture and the languages, not just to other First Nations people but with everyone in the Capilano University community and within North Vancouver.”

As Truth and Reconciliation week will be annually celebrated on campus, George-Hollis reminds everyone that, “We stand on each other’s shoulders, our ancestors gave their lives for us, their knowledge, their hard work, strength, language and culture. This [Truth and Reconciliation event] gives us the sense of unity to share our culture and ideas and give us the sense of acknowledgement as well.”

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On Sept. 24, the Capilano Students’ Union (CSU) had their bi-monthly board of directors meeting.

Marketing strategies were proposed to the board to fulfill the outreach goals outlined in the CSU Strategic Plan.

OOHLALA, a company that designs apps for post-secondary institutions presented to the board to comply with the CSU’s proposition of having their own app available for students and staff at Capilano University. The CSU also approved a $200 budget to advertise the annual general meeting and promote their page on Facebook.

The CSU met with City of North Vancouver Mayor Darrell Mussatto on Sept. 18 and spoke about the municipal elections that will take place this coming November. Mussatto will be proposing to the District Council to put forward a motion to have shuttles come to CapU to take any students who would like to vote to the polling stations on voting day.

The board also approved the creation of the CapU Craft Beer Club.

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pletely isolate and separate the children from their native roots resulting to harsh physical and emotional treatment. “Going through years of residential school, they [First Nations children] wouldn’t know their language, their dances or their songs…They wouldn’t have ancestral names.” According to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, an estimated 150,000 First Nations, Métis, and Inuit children were forced to attend these schools. The Indian Residential Schools started to close in the 1940s but some remained in operation until 1996.

The Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement (IRSSA) was the result of the Aboriginal peoples’ fight for justice in 2007. Along with the agreement was the development of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).

This commission collects further information regarding the Indian Residential School System and has held national events across Canada to honour its survivors and spread awareness about the issue. One of the national events occurred in Vancouver last September, where 70,000 people participated in the Walk for Reconciliation. Among these participants were First Nation students at CapU. “I’ve really enjoyed it last year, especially at the end of the week honouring the truth and reconciliation week, where we had the actual march or the walk,” shares George-Hollis, “It was a great turn out; there were several tens of thousands of people. It was really great to see everyone come together from different communities to be part of this cause and in remembrance [of the survivors] as well.”

Activities during Truth and Reconciliation week at CapU included a screening of the CBC documentary series Aboriginal Peoples Canada and the Way Forward, a panel of Indigenous women and grassroots community organizers Doreen Manuel, Kanahus Manuel and Loretta

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PUPPETS FACING POST-COLLEGE LIFE IN AVENUE Q Alicia Neptune × Writer

× Contributed Despite being a musical comedy involving puppets, Avenue Q is decidedly not for kids. The Arts Club On Tour production comes with a warning: leave those under 14 at home.

The musical tells the story of Princeton, an idealistic college graduate who comes to New York City to follow his dreams and discover his purpose in life. However, the only place he can afford is on Avenue Q, and once there, Princeton discovers the reality of post-college life. This reality includes financial trouble, excessive drinking, romantic woes and other serious adult issues — all of which seem less grim in the hands of the Muppet-like main characters.

More than half the lead characters are portrayed by puppets. And in the case of Avenue Q, where many of the actors are not trained puppeteers, working with puppets can be a challenge.

Before any character can come to life, the actor has to learn the basics of the technique. "Once you learn the technique, your homework fades away,” says Kellie Haines, a professional ventriloquist and puppeteer for stage and TV. “You find yourself watching your puppet come alive as if they have their own energy."

Jeny Cassady, a puppeteer in the Arts Club production of Avenue Q, is well versed in technique.

With over 20 years of experience, it is unsurprising that she works with every puppet at some point during the show. “The challenge in this has not been working with a large number of puppets, but taking on the puppets’ personalities,” she explains.

From reclusive porn addict Trekkie Monster to Kate Monster, the kindergarten teaching assistant who dreams of opening a school for monsters, each puppet has a unique presence, with their own personality and mannerisms.

In addition to being a musical with puppet characters, the show takes place in a quasi-fantasy world where humans and monsters co-exist.

Therefore, Avenue Q asks for more suspension of disbelief than most other shows. “The audience has been asked to accept obvious non-human characters as real, emotional and human-

istic,” says Cassady, “And we ask them to ignore the puppeteers, even though we’re completely visible next to the puppet. Usually, about five minutes into the show the audience has fully accepted this non-conventional theatre presentation, and has moved on to simply engaging in the story.”

The audience’s willingness to go along with whatever the show throws at them allows Avenue Q to be bold and outrageous, which is part of what makes it so hysterically funny. It also keeps the tone lighthearted, even when dealing with mature subject matter. “Having that understanding gives us a lot of leeway when it comes to pushing boundaries,” Cassady notes, “And it doesn’t hurt that the characters attacking the hotbed issues like racism and porn are fuzzy and cute. How can you stay mad at that?”

It also doesn’t hurt that the show has a musical heart. “The singing in Avenue Q is amazing,” says Haines. Having written several musical shows, she is familiar with the role songs play.

“Music reels them in as I like to say. Music and singing is an incredible way to engage your audience. When a puppet sings, you listen!” Some of the songs are comedic, others heartfelt, but all tread familiar territory for young adults. Songs like “Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist” are far from politically correct, but explicitly discuss certain facts of life that we might not acknowledge.

The show as a whole is bluntly honest about life, which is part of the appeal. “What I love about Avenue Q,” says Cassady, “is how it tackles reality head on and says okay, so you’re broke, in debt, out of work, not young anymore…There’s no bright side to this, it just really sucks. So deal with it and move on.” This mentality is especially refreshing to a generation that grew up being told by Sesame Street characters that they were “special”, only to find out that they were only as “special” as anyone else. Avenue Q dares to tell it like it is.

In 2004, it took home the “Triple Crown” at the Tony Awards, winning Best Musical, Best Book and Best Score, and last year it won the 2013 Jessie Richardson Theatre Award for Outstanding Musical. A decade after the show premiered, it is still relevant and admired.

Avenue Q somehow defies the form; it appeals to people who don’t like puppets and people who don’t like musicals, yet also thrills the people who do. Audiences can expect a show that is simultaneously hysterical and heartfelt. “Avenue Q is brilliant in the way it is written and put together,” says Haines, “And with the professional actor’s ensemble – it knocks it out of the ballpark.”

Avenue Q is an Arts Club on Tour production and will be at the BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts on Oct. 4 and 5.

hear that bass drop EDM CULTURE MEETS FASHION Rozan Talebian

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The feeling of intense euphoria at any event or music festival is inevitable. There is just something about the natural movement of the human body from melodic rhythms that makes people unite.

Some call it a culture, a practice or even a religion.

However, the stereotype of “ravers” as drug-addled and underdressed fanatics contributes toward a less-than-sterling reputation. A few bad apples have dictated the electronic dance party scene and have supposedly set a bad title for these events, the greater majority leave with pleasurable memories, long-lasting friends and a lot of burned calories.

This October, an electric dance music (EDM) Culture Charity Fashion show will be hosted in Vancouver. This event will combine three of the most popular pleasures humans can endure: music, fashion and giving to charity.

“A lot of people have a negative image of EDM,” says Shawna Dhillon, the mastermind and producer of the event, “They think it is all about doing drugs, and getting fucked up.”

Dhillon and many others believe that this negative reputation is unfair and overlooks many positive sides to the EDM scene. “I have experienced this culture in a very different way," she explains, “It has impacted my life for the better.”

Dhillon was able to meet Above & Beyond, three collaborative artists who are now one of the biggest electronic musicians in the industry, and they were the initial source of inspiration behind this idea. In meeting them, her passion grew into reality.

“They said ‘we have been watching you dance all night, and we have been watching you cry all night, and you deserve to come backstage!’” shares

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“My heart opened up when they said ‘do it, follow your dreams,’” she continues, “And ever since then, I have been so enlightened and inspired to continue these dreams, which is fashion and music.” Although her original ideas seemed dubious to those who were around her, she continued to reach for her dream. Above & Beyond shared a powerful message to the crowd that night, “Dream on, little [dreamers,].” Dhillon’s passion and drive is what keeps her going,.

The upcoming EDM Culture Charity Fashion Show is guaranteed to be a departure from the typical fashion runway. “It's going to be much different than what you have seen in the past,” Dhillon says. The fashion show will consist of the daily apparel of women and men, as well as stunning nightly rave outfits. Many presenters will be displaying these fashions in a fun and exciting way. Glow body painters, go-go dancers, and mesmerizing light shows will also be taking place.

Another vital part to this event is the donation that will be made to different charities. Instead of

making a single payout to one organization, Dhillon has opted to use a continuum method instead.

“Every three months, we choose a different choice of charity where a portion of the proceeds we received in that time goes to that certain charity,” she says, “This also includes all of the proceeds from my online store, where you will find all of the apparel presented on stage.” Featured designs will include those from Whiskey Teacup, Cotton Tail Couture, Protagonist Menswear, and Designs by Amroe & Peggy. Local ravers have come together to choose their favourite rave outfit designs, calling themselves Vancouver Community Collection.

The event will educate the crowd about the rituals of an everyday raver as well as provide education and safety tips for those choosing to partake in the use of narcotics. Dhillon has partnered with Karmik, a non-profit organization of drugsafe instructors who teach about the effects and side-effects of drugs, what is contained, and how to inject safely. On their Facebook page, Karmik stated, “None of these programs serve to endorse drug use, but they do send clear messages to young people that society actually cares about their wellbeing.” Karmik will have their own booth at the show to encourage EDM fans to enjoy the scene in a responsible manner.

The EDM Culture Charity Fashion show will take place on Oct. 18 at 560. There will be loud music, enthusiastic dancing, tons of entertainment, and distinct performances. Tickets are $20 in advance, available at Ticketzone.com, or $25 at the door. Doors will open at 5 pm and the show is slated to run until 9 pm.

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harvest haus offers taste of europe NEW EVENT PUTS UNIQUE SPIN ON OKTOBERFEST Andy Rice × Managing Editor The plaza outside Vancouver’s Queen Elizabeth Theatre sees its fair share of events each year, but never in October. Something big is happening, and it isn’t the civic brass upping their hospitality game for the crowds of Bizet’s Carmen. It’s Harvest Haus, a four-day fusion of traditional European harvest festivals with a modern west coast flare.

Inspiration for the event comes primarily from Munich, Germany, where Oktoberfest celebrations have taken place in the Bavarian capital since 1810. “Oktoberfest itself started out as a celebration of the fall harvest,” explains Harvest Haus organizer, Tyson Villeneuve. A partner in The Social Concierge, one of Vancouver’s leading boutique branding and marketing agencies, Villeneuve has worked on everything from Le Diner en Blanc to the Deighton Cup. Harvest Haus is the company’s newest focus — an event that’s taken over a year to create.

“There are other great harvest festivals in eastern Europe, in England — all over the place,” Villeneuve continues, “So what we really wanted to do was combine the really cool elements with of course the Bavarian and Germanic roots at its core and amalgamate a whole bunch of different European-style harvest festivals into one.”

While the original Oktoberfest still occurs annually at Theresienwiese fairgrounds in Munich, celebrations have become increasingly popular elsewhere in Europe and beyond. “You have Oktoberfest all over in Germany now and each little town has their own little one and each restaurant has a little one,” explains Patrick Buehrmann, as-

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When East and West Germany reunited in 1990 and the four quadrants of Berlin became one again, the dates of Oktoberfest — which until then was typically held during the last two weeks of September — were moved forward to coincide with the Oct. 3 reunification day. “We celebrate the third a little bit bigger than all the other events or all of the other days,” says Buehrmann. “It’s like Canada Day for Canadians. For us it’s the Oktoberfest.”

“Oktoberfest here started more than 20 years ago,” he adds. “Traditionally it’s held in tents but tents don’t really work here in Vancouver due to the very strict laws here so we have a nice big hall in the old German style and we have Oktoberfest

there with German food… usually German beer, we have live music. It’s a lot about entertainment as well, it’s a social event. Traditionally there’s a huge community table of 50 to 100 people and everyone is sitting together, you get to know other people, drink together, have a good time together, you dance together.”

Buehrmann recalls one year in the mid 1980s when several of the club’s members organized a large-scale Oktoberfest in BC Place stadium.

Since then, he says, the event hasn’t been orchestrated to that degree of authenticity — at least until Harvest Haus came along.

The festival’s location next to a theatre is fitting, as Harvest Haus will operate much like a theatrical performance. “What we’re trying to do from a story arc standpoint and an entertainment standpoint is to tell a story in a four-hour sitting,” Villeneuve explains. “We’re basically theming the whole thing out to evolve 500 years of cultural history in entertainment, aesthetics, food and beer drinking.”

Professional actors and musicians have been hired to create an authentic atmosphere. “We’ve got a character who is going to play the role of the Bürgermeister, which is literally translated as the mayor of the town or the village,” he says. “Traditionally at harvest festivals in Germany nobody can drink beer until he taps the first keg, so we’ve got a guy who is going to be playing him… but also he’s going to kind of act as our guide as we traverse all these different layers through history.”

Of course, no Oktoberfest would be complete without a bounty of food and drink. “From a beer standpoint we’ll have a lot of European beers, a lot of these classic great German beers that you would want to taste and try, but we’ve also got some really cool local craft beers as well,” says Villeneuve, “We

really wanted to keep an old world European harvest festival atmosphere but also with an emphasis on the local bounty of BC, of Vancouver.”

Organizers have teamed up with local suppliers to provide produce and other ingredients, while an abundance of traditional German fare has been sourced as well. “We’re going to have the real German pretzel makers and sausages and schnitzel and all of that great stuff there on site in this little outdoor village that we’re calling Marktplatz,” he says.

Even the method of currency will evoke a feeling of tradition. “We’ve created our own little mini coinage that you’re actually going to get in a little sac as if it was a bag of gold coins,” says Villeneuve, “And we’re calling it gulden, which is basically the German terminology for currency from back in the day.”

Staging, lights, tents, fabrics, wooden tables and nearly 100 decorative barrels are all being brought in to turn the corner of Hamilton and West Georgia into a European fairground.

Live musical entertainment — everything from Oom-Pah-Pah to electronica — will serve as the soundtrack to the festivities. “We’re flying in professional DJs from Germany to play and headline as well too, so that whole aspect is going to be really, really cool just from an entertainment standpoint,” he says.

“The logistics of planning that stuff obviously takes an immense amount of time but we’re really excited to see it all come together,” adds Villeneuve, “It hasn’t been done like this before.”

Harvest Haus takes place Oct. 2 to Oct. 5. For more information regarding tickets, sitting times, food vendors and entertainment, visit Harvest-haus.com.

suffragette city REBEL WOMEN RETURNS TO VANCOUVER STAGE Christine Beyleveldt × Writer

In January 2014, barely a month succeeding the death of renowned freedom fighter Nelson Mandela, the revolutionaries who fought for universal female suffrage were making headlines once again.

Rebel Women, a production featuring the brilliant story of the suffrage movement, made its debut at Jericho Arts Centre on Jan. 3, a century after the fight for political equality happened. A “new and improved” version of the production is set to make its return next month, taking up residence at North Vancouver’s Presentation House for an extended run.

ken women. The WSPU advocated for “deeds, not words,” according to Pankhurst, and when the government refused to acknowledge them, measures became extreme. “These women were the first advocates for civil protest,” says Bryans, “They had buttons, handed out pamphlets, and [attracted] publicity on the sides of streets. These women would give addresses on soap boxes on street corners, pelted by eggs and fish but they kept pushing through.”

After years of little success, violence became attractive. Eventually, the WSPU’s population had reached half a million demonstrators and the struggle was war. But as Bryans says, “ war waged as women [wanted] it.”

The government refused to take these women seriously, and that’s when militancy emerged. The concept of militant suffrage was to exert damage to government property without shedding blood.

Natasha Zacher, a co-worker of Bryans’ on Jane Austen’s adaptation of Emma, shares that windows were broken, cars were smashed, and in extreme cases, buildings were set aflame. “Words [weren’t] enough,” says Zacher in reference to the suffrage movement, “Men weren’t listening [to them].”

Many of these imprisoned women are now admired for their fighting spirit and moral stance. “Not a cat nor a canary could be hurt,” says Zacher, quoting a line from the production, demonstrating the continuity of peace amidst the power struggle. She is to play Lady Constance Lytton, the aristocratic daughter of an Indian viceroy, in Rebel Women this October.

Initially unable to come to terms with the suffrage movement in Britain, Zacher’s character eventually realizes that what she was fighting for was worth more than her aristocratic name and high standing after enduring special treatment in prison while her friends were force-fed and put to hard labour. She changed her identity and referred to herself as Jane Warton, a low-income seamstress. “[The name] was the anglicised version of Joan, for Joan of Arc,” explains Zacher, “She was weak in body, but strong in spirit.”

The power of democracy is extremely strong.

“The show came at a perfect time for us to demonstrate the power of the vote,” says Zacher, “We want to see young people in the house. We didn’t want their work to be for nothing.” The years of fighting and suffering endured on both sides of the suffrage movement resulted in the government retracting the legislature and women being granted the right to vote in 1918.

The initial run of the play was sold out and a tremendous success, enjoying a full house show after show. “It was a phenomena” says Bryans. She and the cast hope to duplicate that level of success during the upcoming revival.

Rebel Women will be staged at Presentation House in North Vancouver from Oct. 3 to 12 before moving to the Metro Theatre from Oct. 16 to Nov. 1. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit Vitalsparktheatre.com.

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The script follows the movement from 1903, when the Women’s Suffrage Political Union (WSPU) was formed, to 1918, when the law was reformed. Using actual dialogue from the era, the plot tracks the first feminist movements to garner the vote in the United Kingdom at the turn of the nineteenth century. “I had to let young people know about this,” says Joan Bryans, theatre veteran and artistic director of Rebel Women, “The courage of these young women was incredible.”

Though Rebel Women focuses on leading suffragette Emmiline Pankhurst and her daughter Christabel Pankhurst, the inspiration was taken from women all across the globe. Suffragettes were up in arms in various countries such as Germany, Australia, France, Canada and India.

Mary Richardson, the only Canadian suffragette to take part in the movement in the United Kingdom, caught Bryans’ attention and sparked the idea for Rebel Women while she was researching the militant suffrage movement. Mary Richardson was commonly referred to as “the Slasher”.

She earned this name from the destruction of the Renaissance painting, Rokeby Venus, in the London National Gallery in 1914. She famously remarked: "[I] tried to destroy the picture of the most beautiful woman in mythological history as a protest against the Government for destroying Mrs. Pankhurst, who is the most beautiful character in modern history…”

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Carlo Javier × Lifestyle Editor In a dark, moody and ominous venue, dream pop band Beach House wooed their sold out audience with their trademark mix of ambience and haunting vocals. Starting off their set with hits from their previous albums, Beach House invoked the power of nostalgia right off the bat. Favourites such as “Zebra,” and “Norway” brought the crowd into a frenzy, sending everyone into a headnodding hysteria that is very much a reflection of singer Victoria Legrand’s dimly lit silhouette on the stage. Comprised by Legrand and Alex Scally, Beach House has been a critic-darling ever since they hit the indie pop scene with their self-titled debut album in 2006. It was their third album,

Teen Dream, that wound up placing them in the upper echelons of the music industry’s indie subcategory. Teen Dream was even included in the 2011 update of the book, 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. With an emphasis on mixing darkness and sudden rays of vibrant colours, the duo was able to channel their music’s dreamy atmosphere – a fitting show on the first official night of autumn. Other highlights included emotionally powerful performances of “Wishes” and “Other People”, two crowd favourites from their 2012 release, Bloom. Beach House’s 15-track set proved to be perfect for Venue’s dark escape of a place. The combination of Legrand’s melancholic voice, the interplay of the absence of light – and the abundance of it, and of course, the buzz, allowed the dream pop duo to achieve the place their music is best suited for – the dream state.

chet faker COMMODORE BALLROOM, SEPT. 22 Leah Scheitel × Chet Faker's Future Ex-Girlfriend

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If it wasn’t apparent how popular Chet Faker’s music has become, it's now after playing to a sold out show at the Commodore. Guys and girls alike were on their tippy toes, all vying for a better look at the 26-year-old Australian babe. And Faker (neé Nicholas Murphy) wasted no time serenading the crowd, opening with an instrumental track “Cigarettes and Chocolate” and “1998” – which was the hipster soundtrack to summer. From there, he played everything that the audience wanted to hear, including “No Diggity” (the cover that launched his career) and a personal favourite, “To Me”. What sets Faker apart from other performers and musicians in his genre is his overt love for what he does. Watching someone passionately do exactly what they want to do will never wither or become boring. The audience appreciated every

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beat and quivered along with him as he belted out romantic lyrics. Faker is relatively new to the music scene, having only been around for three years.

And for the most part, he has been able to do it all independent of a record company’s influence or dictation, which is something that he appreciates.

“It’s because people like you bought my albums and pay to come to my show,” he said, in reference to his ability to keep his music mostly his.

There was a mutual respect between the crowd and Faker for the duration of his hour-long set. And for the encore, he came back to play a sentimental rendition of “Talk Is Cheap”. As he sang to the audience, the audience sang to him, almost as a gesture for the quality of Faker’s performance.

Even through a pair of headphones, his romantic lyrics and soulful voice melts hearts, and seeing him perform live only enhances that experience.

Faker turned his Vancouver audience into a puddle of drool - a perfect puddle of drool.

Die Antwoord PNE FORUM, SEPT. 23 Cheryl Swan × Art Director If anyone who has not had the chance to see Die Antwoord live wonders if Ninja is actually that tall, and Yolandi that petite – she’s as petite as her voice is sweet and he’s as tall as his mouth is foul.

But it’s not small nor large that matters here. A juxtaposition worth seeing, they compliment one another in the way that a crow gouging out a dead deer’s eye would. This show was dramatic, soft, hard, trashy, clean, dirty, blatant and entertaining.

I walked in with intrigue and walked out with two deaf ears, pulsating knees and my clothing stuck

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Andy Rice × Managing Editor The newest record from Wilderness of Manitoba is a testament to experimentation gone right — a developing band finding its stride in the belly of a risk. Released Sept. 16 via Pheromone Recordings, the 10-track Between Colours offers a pleasing palate of sounds — good pop melodies, catchy hooks, and an undeniable nod to the 80s and 90s.

Among them is an instantly recognizable cameo

by Rush’s Alex Lifeson on “Shift”, but we’ll get to that a little later. This is, after all, about Wilderness of Manitoba (who are from Toronto, by the way.) From the new wavy “Big Skies” to the bouncy “Leave Someone”, which sounds more like a Said the Whale track than anything that band is doing nowadays, the trio tries their hand at a variety of sub-genres. For as many comparisons

× Managing Editor as can be made, however, they really do have their own thing going on. The members and their hired studio guns expertly shape-shift their way through a body of work that pushes the boundaries of their own musical past — and never once too far either, although a little more continuity within the track list couldn’t hurt. On the performance front, guitarist-keyboardist-vocalist Will Whitwham shines brightest when paired with fellow singer-guitaristviolinist Amanda Balsys. And when she sings alone on “Fade From My Light”, it’s as though a presentday hybrid of Karen Carpenter and Alanis Morrisette has appeared out of nowhere. The cameos from Lifeson and ex-Rheostatic Michael Phillip Wojewoda are nice, but ultimately not what carry the record or prove it’s worth. Well-crafted songs, dual vocals and steady bottom end of bassist Wes McClintock do that just fine.

to my skin — which is exactly what I expected.

If you’re into creepy contact lenses, cozy onezies, people not budging out of the way for you, and acid, then enter Die Antwoord. The freaky thing about this show? It was an all ager – inappropriate considering their lyrics and massive blow up boy doll with the largest penis in hand. Aside from seeing a man-sized handful of tripped-out sweaty tweenagers, I smoked cigarettes rebelliously and swayed my hips. By the end of the show I was left wondering what it’d be like to hang out with the duo on a normal day — grocery shopping or playing Scrabble or something. But more-so I fantasized about cuddling Yolandi in (and out of ) her fleecy onezie.

In several interviews over the past few years, Leonard Cohen has joked that he’ll resume smoking when he turns 80. He released Popular Problems on Sept. 22, the day before he was poised to become a Marlboro man once again. It’s hard to imagine his voice much deeper or grittier than it is on this latest record, but even if the cigs do claim what’s left, he’s no longer using those pipes like he once did. These days, Cohen’s musical compositions aren’t so much songs as picture frames for his spoken lyrics — some ornate, some simple, but each distinctively chosen to highlight the words within.

A few songs do receive some extra flash though, like “A Street” and “My Oh My” which boast brass interjections that sound as if they’ve been lifted from Phil Collins’ …But Seriously. Overall, the nine-song album is far more groove-oriented than Cohen’s last output, 2013’s Old Ideas, which was crafted more like a book of hymns. Three tracks —

“Slow”, “Born in Chains” and “You Got Me Singing” — do continue in that vein, although the musical focus of Popular Problems leans primarily on a mixture of synthetic horns, electronics and drums.

Producer Patrick Leonard (of Madonna fame) has carried over as a co-writer on many of the tracks, but in recent years Cohen has perfected such a distinctive blend between himself, the Webb Sisters and longtime collaborator Sharon Robinson that any or all are noticeably absent here. “Did I Ever Love You” juxtaposes Cohen’s impassioned verses against a bouncy country-folk chorus handled by a different cast of backup singers who don’t quite compare. “Samson in New Orleans” is a highlight though, proving that Cohen can still hit the notes just fine on his own. Sure, his voice has lost the nasal clarity it once had in favour of a raspy gargle that could put Tom Waits out of business, but Cohen is a man of 80 now — and not to mention a national treasure who can still cough up a good song or two.

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Seriously, I love it when bands adopt shitty celebrity names. I love it as much as pets with shitty human names. (The next cat I get, his name will be Dan Catryod). And what shittier celeb to name your band after than Tom Cruise? Go see this simply for the pure novelty and cheap PBRs. So down.

If you’re anything like me, by the time an exam starts your palms are so sweaty that you can barely grasp onto the pen properly. And then, as you watch the time dwindle away, sweat drops start boiling over your forehead and landing on the page, smudging the answer you just spent 20 minutes working on. So go to this, a workshop on how to skip the test anxiety. Rock your exams. Impress your teachers.

It’s our production manager’s little sister’s birthday. I have never met Sarah, but from what I hear of her, she sounds absolutely pleasant and very nice. And the world needs all the nice and pleasant people it can get. She also enjoys hockey - a lot. That's why her present is hockey tickets. So happy birthday Sarah! From all of us at the Courier, we hope it’s badass and wonderful.

We be digging out a classic for this week’s edition of Movie Mondays: R. Kelly’s Trapped in the Closet. It’s a gripping cinematic masterpiece, with infidelity, vengeance, and romance. There is also a surprise appearance by a small person who can fit under a sink. Do yourself a favour and watch this on repeat.

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If you feel like you need to relate to the university more, then this meeting may be for you. Or at least that’s what the title makes it sound like.

But I don’t really know if this meeting will teach you anything about relating to universities. How about this – you go, check it out, and then slither out of it at noon and come to our pitch meeting right next door in Maple 122, and tell us what it’s about.

Who doesn’t rock out to angry Irish punk music?

You’ll get to mosh and kick people in the teeth.

But careful, make sure they have dental insurance before you kick them, because that shit is expensive, and your ass may be liable for the costs.

What a name for a show. Quite the name. On opening night, creator/performer/funny woman Deanna Fleysher will treat the audience on a full on performance littered with jokes about “sex, sin, shadows and subterfuge”. Because of this, it’s restricted to people 16 and older, making it all the more enticing.

Surprise, surprise – another electro-pop-punk-cutesy nu-disco group that I have never heard of before.

This must mean I’m getting old. Anyways, I like the name of these guys because it makes me think I would get to have a love affair with Hercules, and that would be rad! Their bio also says that they are from LA, so they are probably into wheatgrass and working out, making them spectacles to look at, much like Hercules himself.

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I wonder if fishes and birds get along in life? Don’t birds hunt fish? Once I saw I giant eagle swoop down and clench a jumping fish between its talons. The catch was so big that the eagle actually had a hard time flying away. Anyways, these fish and birds obviously get along because they formed a folk band and are serenading the audience at the Biltmore.

Our Arts Editor is finally of the legal age, meaning she can buy her first beer. So for her birthday present, I’m going to allow her to go to the liquor store, buy me a six pack of Pilsner, and then cradle it as she carries it back to me. Cradle it like a crying child. That is my present to you, Alva. Maybe you guys should get her something better though?

I thought of this present first.

Once, I met a Tinder date here, and I was looking forward to a casual get-to-know-you session. Instead, trivia was happening all around us and interrupted what could have been a great informational date. I wasn’t able to find out anything about him, but I did find out from the tables all yelling facts out that the starship in the original Alien movie was “Sulaco”. So go to this, and wreck everyone’s Tinder dates.

Do you want to be one of those people that can take a sip of scotch and then say “I reckon this one to be too peaty. It’s almost like pee tea.” Then this is your chance to learn how. There is a scotch and whiskey tasting at the Legacy Liquor store. And the best part is you can ride your bike there, meaning you get to taste all the whiskies.

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This is a live recording of a podcast. Comedians Dave Shumka (cool last name, dude) and Graham Clark make you laugh and that will be recorded and immortalized on the Internet forever.

It’s perfect if you have one of those voluptuous laughs – the kind that overtakes everyone else’s little giggles. Then you can listen to the podcast for years and pinpoint your laughter. That would be cool and pointless.

Mega-babe Cat Power is on tour, performing songs from her new album Sun. I revere her as somewhat as a badass because she sings songs about getting drunk in bars, which is one of my specialty talents, and does it while melting boners all around her. So if you go to this, watch your boner.

I’m not really sure why these guys think they can charge $150 to see two aging best friends torment each other on stage when you can stream it on Netflix. But they are, and if you like, you can go and see them.

When I asked Carlo if he knew about the Sonics, he smiled and said, “The basketball team? I didn’t know you liked basketball.” Well, I don’t, Carlo.

And I was talking about the legendary garage-rock bank from Washington playing at the Rickshaw.

Those are the only kind of Sonics I care about.

That, and the sonic of the hedgehog kind.

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These guys are on some kind of revival, having just released a new album after a small hiatus.

And who doesn’t like a comeback kid? They will be playing the new songs from their album Brill Bruisers. And opening for them is Pickwick, a band from Seattle that I adore. So go for Pickwick and stay for the New Pornographers.

This guy is a classic “American singer-songwriter,” (aren’t they all), performing songs from his new album The Best Day. That’s all cool, but it’s the special guests that got me excited – Sebadoh. Their song “On Fire” was the soundtrack to my life from 2006 to 2008.

With the semester well underway, it’s likely that the diets have started to slip again. And it can be quite therapeutic to turn off all computers/ phones, put on a good album and cook dinner.

Just chop, sauté and dance to whatever beats you got pumping. But make sure to make enough for two – this is a great way to impress a date.

Colin Mochrie is in town for two evenings, doing up close and personal shows at The Improv Centre on Granville Island. If you are unfamiliar, he is famed for his work on Canadian satire show This Hour Has 22 Minuets among other comedy bits. So he’s good, and funny, and that must be why the show is sold out. But maybe if you get all gussied up and prance around in front of the theatre, someone will take sympathy and let you in. Not that I have ever done that.

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Dan Savage

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Fox Cabaret 8 pm $15

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The Boom Booms are booming at the Fox Cabaret in honour of their new album Love is Overdue.

This album is also overdue, as they haven’t released one since their first album Hot Rum in 2011.

Therese also pointed out that they’ve had the same set list for the past three years. So yes, love and this album is long overdue. Step it up, Boom Booms.

Seriously, the Vogue is blowing up recently, and have been booking my favourite comedians and idols. From Ira Glass last week to Dan Savage and Norm MacDonald on the same day, I may as well move into the sound booth and check them all out. Too bad I slept with the sound guy from the Vogue after a Tinder date in the spring. I don’t think I would be too welcome in there anymore.

As a seasoned SNL critic, I’m allowed to say that Norm MacDonald is the most underrated Weekend Update anchor in SNL history. His dry sense of humour is something to be marvelled at. So naturally, I can’t wait to see him in person at the Vogue. It’s part of the Northwest Podcast fest, which is taking over Vancouver and this edition of the Calendar.

This day is better than Christmas, my birthday and Halloween combined – SNL starts a new season. And Chris Pratt is a host, which is a good choice since he’s blossomed into America’s golden child in the past six months. And he’ll be funny.

I just wish I knew who Ariana Grande is. As Faye put it, she sounds like a spicy drink from Starbucks.

CIBC Run for the Cure

Pumpkin Fest 2014

Lily Allen

The Pretty Wreckless

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Running is better done with a cause behind it, and what better cause than raising money for breast cancer. CIBC sponsors a 1 km or 5 km walk, run or even crawl if you’re that hungover.

But try not to show up hungover for a charity event. This has been a message brought to you by decency.

West Vancouver Community Centre 10 am to 3 pm $ - pumpkin spice latte?

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Is it just me, or have people become nasty to white girls who like pumpkin spice lattes? The Internet is barfing up an endless stream of mockery towards girls in Ugg boots who like to talk about their favourite things of fall. But if pumpkins are actually your favourite thing about fall, you’d be stupid to miss an entire festival dedicated to them. So hit it up, and buy me a pumpkin spice latte. I’ve never actually had one.

Commodore Ballroom 7 pm $42.50

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Lily Allen’s song “Smile” was on repeat so often in 2008 that every time I heard it, I would frown and want to punch the smile right off of that bitch’s face. But then she got vocal and outspoken, and I thought she was pretty rad. So I’d see this. She’s one of those people who got better with age.

Vogue Theatre 7 pm $25

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I once unknowly gave love advice to an actress from Gossip Girl. I told her to get Tinder. It wasn’t Taylor Momsom, but with that much eyeliner, she could maybe use some love advice.

Or a make-up sponsor. Anyway, her band is at the Vogue Theatre (again with the Vogue) and they have at least one good song, so it may be worth the $25.

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SEX & DISABILITY Sexuality is an integral puzzle piece of every man and woman’s personality. It’s an aspect of human life that can often define an individual, even if only partially. Sex and relationships are a large part of the journey through adulthood, whether we like to admit that or not. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), “Sexuality is not synonymous with sexual intercourse [and it] influences thoughts, feelings, actions and interac-

related to the feelings of acceptance. Humans are naturally social creatures and without physical touch, people can often become lonely and depressed due to physical isolation. Not all these gestures of touch are exclusively sexual, even massage and hand holding suffice. “A physical level of intimacy is only natural and is necessary between a couple, to show a level of comfort and affection.

Sexual intimacy is one of the best ways to do it.

full blown deal from just massages to everything else,” says Lazatin.

“My experience in researching this and then starting Sensual Solutions, I’m surprised at how many opportunities there are that are lost for people with disabilities to experience intimacy.

There are all kinds of stereotypes that once you’ve got an injury you are no longer a sexual being, that you are no longer valid of love and

tions and thereby our mental and physical health.”

Although sexuality is normally discovered through personal exploration, not all individuals have the same opportunities.

As of 2012, 6.5 per cent of Canadians between the ages of 25 and 44 were living with a disability. An overall 4.4 million people nationwide have reported living with a disability based on information gathered from the Participation and Activity Limitation Survey (PALS). These include devel-

You may express emotions verbally but nothing says it better than physical intimacy,’ explained psychologist, Dr. Sharita Shah in an interview with UK’s Telepgraph. “Everyone has urges, like hunger urges, sleep urges, even sexual needs are necessary and biological in nature.”

Therapy that uses touch in patients suffering with physical disabilities has proven immensely positive in early treatment with children. According to Positivehealth.com, Touch Therapy

of intimacy. That you should just forget about that, suppress that, keep that in the back of your mind,” explains St. John. Lazatin and Hall decided to examine the issue from St. John’s standpoint, that society grossly overlooks the disabled community and their sexual needs. “Everything in the media talks to us about vanity, and about sexuality and romance all of that permeates our lives every day and these are human beings, adults, who aren’t heard. The disabled community has been

opmental, mental and psychological disabilities as well as mobility and pain, each of which present obstacles in making sexuality a fluid experience.

Although huge strides have been made which have enabled more people with disabilities to have access to jobs, the challenges people with disabilities face in their day-to-day lives are numerous and often go unnoticed.

“I feel sexuality and disability is something that people in general don’t think is possible. Or they feel there is too much to deal with when thinking of a disabled person as a sexual being or having a sexual relationship with a person who has a disability,” explains Corrine Schwenk a 30-year-old disability activist who suffers from cerebral palsy.

“We usually think of disability as a physiological condition that limits the ability of people to function in society, to play the social roles that are typically expected of them. So disability would limit them in their ability to work, or to be a student or in the case of what we’re talking about to be a lover or partner,” said Paul Longmore, director of the Institute on Disability at San Francisco State University in an interview with the Health Equity Institute, “The result of the disability would be that they are sexually and romantically impaired in some way.”

With sex and dating becoming simplified by popular apps such as Tinder, access is just a few swipes away at any given time. Entering the world of dating with a mental or physical disability, however, is a little more challenging. Unlike sex and romance between people who do not struggle with a disability, which is commonly portrayed in every form of media, sex and disability is not often depicted or equally represented. In turn, a sense of discomfort is often proliferated by the lack of dialogue and discussion surrounding the topic.

Training Programs (TTTP) have demonstrated strong success in aiding young people living with physical and mental disabilities, such as autism and cerebral palsy. Touch and physical contact is essential to human growth as well as development and therapeutic benefits of massage have been well documented, citing both physical and emotional impacts. The same also applies in intimate relationships between adults.

Two BCIT Broadcast Journalism students, Jon Hall and Emily Lazatin, were very much intrigued on the relationship between sex and disability and made a documentary, The Forgotten Touch, in April. Their short radio documentary explored the right of physically disabled individuals to be recognized as sexual beings. “I came across it by accident, it was like a blessing,” says Lazatin. “I want[ed] to do a topic that people don’t usually do documentaries on because you hear the same stuff over and over again, year after year — so I was like ‘okay, what can I do?’” After some initial brainstorming, she and Hall decided to look into the business of sexual services. “What happened was I wanted to follow a, not a prostitute, but an escort and see why women do this. Some people do it for money, some people do it because they actually like it. So I ended up calling escort services in the lower mainland and by chance I found one called Sensual Solutions,” explains Lazatin.

Sensual Solutions was founded by Trish St. John, a former human resources and communications professional from Vancouver, who later worked as a sales and booking agent in one of the city’s top legal escort agencies. During her time working for the agency, St. John discovered adults, and parents of adult children with special needs and disabilities, were in search of a service that would help them, but there was a lack of options available to meet their specific needs. “She runs a service, I believe she is maybe one, the only one or one of very few at least, that cater to the disabled community. And that’s everything from people in wheelchairs, people who can’t feel anything, it’s the

overlooked and it’s not fair and it’s not right,” says St. John.

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LOVE LIVES Schwenk was inspired to create the blog, Disabled Sexy Proud (Dspishowweroll.wordpress. com) to help dispel some of the misconceptions about living as a sexual being with a disability. Cerebral palsy is a condition marked by impaired muscle coordination caused by damage to the brain before or at birth, in turn making conventional dating more complicated than for other women Schwenk’s age. “I didn’t date until I was 22 because guys wouldn’t pay me attention.

I’ve been single on and off since, but I am truly blessed to have the man I’m with now. We’re not engaged but marriage is definitely in our future,” says Schwenk.

"There are all kinds of stereotypes that once you've got an injury you are no longer a sexual being."

Mentallydisableddating.com is currently the fastest growing co-operative of online dating sites in the world helping individuals living with disabilities to connect with one another to create romantic relationships more easily. There are many similar websites available geared solely to the disabled population that tailor to specific interests, hobbies and user needs. In today’s digital age, it’s now becoming easier for the disabled community to connect with others who have similar disad-

vantages. “I live in a small town where there aren’t many social opportunities,” explains Schwenk, “Online dating allows you to get to know someone without being judged by your walker or wheelchair.” Schwenk found her boyfriend on a traditional dating website and once they had established a connection, divulged her disability — meaning a conversation had to happen when making things physical. “In the case with my man, we talked beforehand because at the time we met,

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I wasn’t medically able to have sex.”

However, not all disabilities are physical. Mental disabilities, though not as obvious, still pose their own barriers when dating. Mark Sundstrom is 28 years old and lives in West Vancouver, currently working at Whole Foods Market. “I’ve got Asperger’s, a nonverbal learning disorder and OCD and a little mild Tourette’s as well. It’s hard to notice when you’re on proper medication and you’re keeping yourself in good shape,” he says.

Sundstrom’s disability is a high-functioning form of autism, which means that he can often miss social cues and cannot read subtleties of nonverbal

weekly regular at karaoke nights across the city, and can be caught at many clubs and is anything but shy. “A lot of women put me in the friend zone because they don’t understand. They don’t want to give me the wrong impression or lead me on, because I can be easily lead on sometimes when I shouldn’t be,” says Sundstrom. With patience, he says he is working towards finding a long-lasting partner to spend his days and nights with.

San Francisco comedian Jackson McBrayer lives with cerebral palsy and has turned his condition into the focal point of his stand-up routines. While it’s generally become ingrained that one shouldn’t

and experience of disability, classified as paraphilia.

These fetishists come in a variety of subcultures, including certain devotees who are mostly attracted to people who are confined to wheelchairs, which birthed the term “chair chaser”. Removing the person from the disability, therefore sexualizing the disability itself, is just a form of objectification.

Devotees experience sexual attraction to the disability, not the person.

Objectifying the challenges and not treating the person as more than their physical or mental disability has created some founded frustration from the disabled community. Criticized as a problematic power dynamic fetish, the biggest issue that concerns the community is the perceived attraction to helplessness.

Devotees to the disabled communities have been studied as a rare pathological attraction since the late 19th century, according to Wikipedia. In the 90s, the fetish was classified as “factitious disability disorder” because it was later known that devotees were not limited to only obsess over individuals with amputations, but people with all different disabilities.

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EMPOWERED Kyla Harris, co-owner of the Main Artery Gallery in Vancouver, became disabled following a diving accident in 2000. “One of the first questions I’m asked when I meet a stranger is ‘so, can you have sex?’” said Harris in an interview with Streetsie, an online hangout for wheelchair users. “This and other catalysts, spurred me to work on a photography project with Sarah Murray called "Access Sex", looking at disabilities and sexuality.” Through her project, compiled of provocative images that portray life with disability in a sexy way, Harris claims her own sexuality through artistic expression.

Harris is not alone, as other beautiful women have also broken through traditional moulds in

lubrication. Products such as the Love Wedge, an inflatable position aid, help make sex easier and different positions more accessible to people with disabilities. There are also add-ons for wheelchairs that simulate the back and forth motion of traditional sex. As society progresses and the topic of disabilities becomes less taboo, the dialogue will open the avenues to create safer places of understanding for sexual people living with a disability.

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laugh at disabilities, McBrayer aims to place his mobility issues in people’s faces and let them know it’s okay to laugh — at least with him. “I was dating this girl for a while and we had just had sex that day and then afterwards she suggested we have sex in my wheelchair. The fact that it was her idea was awesome and the reason that it is, beyond the whole novelty of it, is that it’s the ultimate act of acceptance,” he says, “Instead of saying I’m dating you and I’m fine with you being in your chair, but if she is having sex with you in your chair – its ‘I like it, accept it, and it’s something that I’m interested in.’”

FETISHIZED Although sex in a wheelchair may be a symbol of acceptance to some like McBrayer, there is also an attraction harboured by fetishists of the chair itself. Commonly known as devotee culture, it is the sexualized interest in the appearance, sensation

media. Wheelchair user Ellen Stohl was the first quadriplegic to appear in the pages of men’s magazine Playboy, and amputee model Aimee Mullins graced fashion magazine Dazed and Confused sporting looks from the late designer Alexander McQueen. “With a range of images the connection between disabilities and sexuality at times is merely a suggestion to ease people into something they may have never consciously thought about,” said Harris.

In Vancouver, there are a lot of options available to people with disabilities looking to enjoy a sexually active lifestyle. “We have clients with cerebral palsy, with multiple sclerosis, all kinds of spinal cord injuries, quadriplegia, paraplegia, stroke,” says St. John. Spinal cord injuries do mean a lack of sensation or no feeling at all in the genitals for some people, and medications such as Cialis and other erectile dysfunction pills are often used to make things easier. Similarly, females with spinal cord injuries can take Viagra to increase their own

have become much more open and frank about sexuality, that has happened too amongst people with disabilities,” explained Longmore, “Disability was once a taboo subject [but] is much more openly talked about. And people with all kinds of disabilities have been much more assertive in claiming their sexuality and their right to be sexual.”

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communication. “Sometimes when you’re not appropriate socially, sometimes something you think is funny then somebody else might not think its funny or they may not be interested,” he explains.

Sundstrom feels that dating in Vancouver is difficult whether or not you have a physical or mental disability. “Just meeting people in Vancouver generally though is very difficult for anybody because people are kind of introverted in this city and a little bit guarded so it’s very, very tough.”

“Sex isn’t the number one priority on my list,” he adds, “I’ve tried [dating] online and it doesn’t usually work, but I’ve had a few responses, I’ve been on a few dates and I had a girlfriend in the past. I’m always upfront and honest with people, I have nothing to hide. You can ask me any question and I’ll tell you straight up, what you see is what you get.” Although Asperger’s does impact on Sundstrom’s love life, it doesn’t hold him back from living an active social live. Sundstrom is a

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WORKING ON “The great thing about working at a tech and social media company is that things rarely stand still. Those two industries are constantly evolving,” says Ariana Biagi, Freemium, Marketing Coordinator at Hootsuite.

As social media, online communications and content sharing continue their rapid integration into society, Vancouver’s landscape in the industry

people on the content, blog, video, social media and design teams.”

Hootsuite has offices in San Francisco, New York, Hong Kong and several other cities – which has also enabled Biagi to work with customers from around the world, “More recently, since Hootsuite has opened offices in Singapore and London, I get to help create content for and speak

has also developed. Vancouver-based Hootsuite has become one of the fastest rising tech companies in Canada, and last year social media titan Facebook opened an office in the city. Even smaller scale companies are getting involved. Quietly is a Vancouver-based publishing platform that specializes in creating lists to share content. It also works with other bloggers and publishers by transforming content into articles that are easier to share on the web.

Vancouver is still no Silicon Valley, but evidently the job market for social media and tech companies is getting busier.

with customers from all over Asia-Pacific (APAC) and Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

Pretty exciting stuff.”

Social media integration and organizational dashboards aren’t the only features Hootsuite is known for. The company’s offices have been noted for their various amenities and wow factor.

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Since the company is still in its early stages – it was founded only last year – their staff is still relatively small. “As of any other small company, I have my hands on a lot of projects, which include things like our blogs, growing our editorial network, as well as helping put in place plans for our sponsorship marketplace,” says Ross.

With Hootsuite being one of Canada’s brightest young companies, it might not come as a surprise that Dario Meli, one of the cofounders of Hootsuite, is also the one of the co-founders of Quietly. Over a year ago, Meli and Sean Tyson began hiring employees to give life to their vision.

The idea was to build something that would change the way content is shared in our digital era.

“It started out as more of a consumer-facing product and that’s what helped us create a product that’s user friendly,” says Ross, “It’s always been a goal for it to be a tool for digital publishers. So it

Ross, “Everyone in the company works in the large room together filled with desks so there’s a lot of room for collaboration and it’s easy to talk to everyone. There’s also a full kitchen, a couch, there’s also places to sit around in the office that you may not have in a traditional office space if you’re wanting to kind of have a change in scenery.” Quietly’s office also takes full advantage of it being in the heart of Gastown, where some of the best restaurants, cafes and other start up companies are found.

Working in the field of social media, content sharing, and online communications might be among the most desired jobs right now, and it seems that it’s going to stay that way for a while longer.

One of the factors that will play an important role in the next step for online-based content is the synergy between small, compact messages or points such as a Tweet, and the in-depth, well-researched quality of long-form writing. “I think social media and content sharing will continue to exist, but I think it will continue to adapt as well,” begins Ross, “I think it will be a combination of curation, which

has that community component, but it’s expanded to be a set of tools for digital publishers.”

Now, with a little over a dozen employees, Quietly has become one of the several start up companies that have made their home in Vancouver in recent years. Companies such as mobile game development shop A Thinking Ape, social networking

we see a lot of, and long-form content. People think long-form content is disappearing, but I think it’s being valued differently and it needs to be viewed differently in order for it to be successful as well.”

As for social media itself, its growth has been so dramatic that it can be considered as a life companion. “It's keeping people accountable, it's help-

platform Anahita, and anti-loss tool developer Linquet are just a few of the up and coming Vancouverbased start up businesses.

Like Hootsuite and other social media companies, Quietly’s office also breaks the traditional idea of a business office. “We’re in Gastown and we’re in a live-work space, so it seems that some of the units are apartments and some of them are offices,” begins

ing people be heard, and it's allowing for people to communicate at a speed and across distances that has been almost impossible until now,” says Biagi, “It helps people connect and form communities. It helps people become more informed. It's both hard to deny and know exactly how big of an impact it has had.”

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Hootsuite is just one of the many social networking companies that have been noted not only for their innovation in their respective field and products, but also for their eclectic and artistic offices, and for embodying the spirit of “social” in their working environment. “At Hootsuite, culture is king,” Biagi begins, “Everything they offer is to help encourage bonding, teamwork, and a sense of family within the company. We even have a branded hashtag that you can search on Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr to get a glimpse of what it’s like to work at Hootsuite: #HootsuiteLife.”

Classified as a social media management system, Hootsuite provides a dashboard that allows users to manage their social accounts in a single interface without having to switch applications or websites.

The Hootsuite dashboard acts as a central hub where users can send out messages or campaigns to an array of social media services such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIn most notably. This ability to integrate different social media platforms into one interface makes Hootsuite popular among brands, businesses and organizations that use a multitude of mediums in order to have as far a reach of engagement as possible.

Biagi’s position encompasses a wide range of responsibilities, “I work on the product marketing team, which means we help with market research, provide sales enablement collateral, create success stories, help promote new features or product launches, organize campaigns, and a lot more,” she says “We have a pretty big marketing team, with dozens of people working together to educate, inform, help and empower businesses of any size to become successful on social media through the use of our tool, the Hootsuite dashboard.”

Despite working in a tech-savvy environment, Biagi’s day-to-day routine still involves “a lot of the nitty-gritty work.” She often organizes and assigns tasks in order to complete a campaign or a project such as Hootsuite’s Social Media Coach Guide. Her work in product marketing also calls for collaborating with a variety of other teams, “I get to work closely with all the really creative

Last year, the company opened their new office in Mount Pleasant. The 33,000 sq. ft. space has features that other offices in the city would be envious of. The office has conveniences such as a beer, wine, and pop on tap. There are tents that serve as workstations, a gym that hosts yoga classes and boot camps, there are also picnic tables that serve in the place of cubicles.

At Hootsuite, employees are mobile. They’re encouraged to move around, socialize, and collaborate with their colleagues as opposed to being limited in a cubicle. “They want us to be able to walk up to our colleagues and talk about a project… or your day, or your breakfast, or your weekend. They also have various ‘lounge’ areas for when you want a change of scenery,” says Biagi.

The tech and social media-focused company advocates a healthy and active lifestyle at their office.

Other community building aspects at the Hootsuite office include clubs dedicated to activities such as board games, cycling, or crafting. There are also sports teams such as a soccer squad and a volleyball team. Parties labelled as “Parliament” are thrown every month, where two departments who don’t get to collaborate with each other host a party for the rest of the company.

Culture is of utmost importance at Hootsuite, every meeting space and most of their walls are designed as murals. Local artists such as Ola Volo have their work immortalized in the Hootsuite offices. “It’s a real celebration of local art in Vancouver,” says Biagi.

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QUIETLY MOVING UP Quietly, a start up publishing platform is based right in the heart of Gastown. Starting out with a listcreating focus, Quietly has grown to become more than just a content sharing platform, but also into a tool that helps publishers reach a bigger readership.

Emily Ross is the Publishing Relations Manager for the Vancouver-based content sharing platform. A large part of her responsibilities with Quietly involves having to work with partners to help them with strategy, content creation, and ensuring their success with the use of Quietly.

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badvertising HIDING THE TRUTH IS STILL LYING Simon Thistlewood × Writer Native advertising isn’t new but it's back. Native advertising is an article that appears in the editorial section of a news publication and is specifically designed to appear as legitimate editorial journalism even to discerning viewers.

This type of advertising also goes by corporate journalism, brand publishing, or custom content.

Its intention is to sell a product, and if online, to be shared by as many people as possible. The difference between a banner ad, a targeted ad, and native advertising is that the former declare themselves as advertisements, while the latter attempts to hide its nature. Native advertising employs advertising strategies such as speculating on possible problems only their product can fix.

Native advertising is pretending to be that which it is not, which is a fabrication.

As print transitions to digital, media producers find the revenue streams being poured into their glasses transform from Champagne to Pabst Blue Ribbon. People now tend to consume their news online, and they don’t want to pay for anything viewed on the web. Attempts to pay for web sites using banner ads have failed miserably, as click-baiting banner ads supply practically no revenue. Many sites, such as The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, and N+1, are attempting to fund themselves through subscriber models and paywalls. Some of the sites use paywalls and many that have remained free to view, including, The New York Times, The Atlantic and Buzzfeed.com, have optioned to thicken their revenue streams by introducing native advertising. The response to native advertising, at least among Twitter users and news junkies, hasn’t been positive.

In 2013, The Atlantic posted an article labelled

× Taylor Lee as sponsored content that had to be pulled after readers reacted with disgust to the headline “David Misgave Leads Scientology to Milestone Year.” The Atlantic later issued a statement acknowledging that they’d made a mistake. Amusingly, the one journalistic form of media whose nature will be explicitly announced when posted is satire. Too many users were fooled into posting articles by the Onion with titles such as "Tips for being an unarmed black teenager”, believing them to be legitimate, which speaks both to the ease of news sites ability to mask the nature of their stories, and the level of critical reading operating on social media newsfeeds.

Increasingly, politicians are no longer required to announce their sponsors, lobbyers and funders. Money given to a politician from an un-

known source is commonly referred to as “dark money.” The upcoming American mid-term elections and 2016 presidential election promise to be dominated by such untraceable funds. This movement of money into the political realm has been enabled by the repeal and reformation of campaign finance laws, most notably with the 2010 Supreme Court case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. The passing of Citizens United prohibited the government from restricting independent political expenditures by corporations, effectively removing any ceiling to campaign donations and equating the rights of money with that of free speech.

This means that ultra-rich mega-donors, such as George Soros, the Koch brothers, and Sheldon Anderson are now able to greater influence elec-

tions. Following the ruling of Citizens United, Obama gave a speech during a fundraiser in Seattle, which was covered by author Kenneth P. Vogel in his book Big Money: 2.5 Billion Dollars, One Suspicious Vehicle, and a Pimp—on the Trail of the Ultra-Rich Hijacking American Politics. “You now have the potential of 200 people deciding who ends up being elected president every single time…I may be the last presidential candidate who could win the way I won, which was coming out without a lot of special-interest support, without a handful of big corporate supporters, who was able to mobilize and had the time and the space to mobilize a grassroots effort, and then eventually got a lot of big donors, but started off small and was able to build. I think the capacity for somebody to do that is going to be much harder,” Vogel wrote.

The new storytelling mediums have done much to democratize and broaden the stories we read. Facebook and Twitter has given a voice to many who were previously voiceless, and connected many to both global and local news. However, there remains a need for long form, serious journalism to tackle the stories that take time and resources beyond the ability of one individual. At the same time that the Internet has given politicians the ability to communicate directly with the entirety of their voters easier than any time in history, new laws are giving them the option to only pay attention to the richest of their constituents. If people want real truths provided and not hidden narratives and hidden agendas, they will have to start demanding it from their politicians and paying for their newspapers.

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It’s time for the National Football League’s commissioner Roger Goodell to go. The way the embattled NFL commissioner mishandled the Ray Rice debacle should be grounds enough for his immediate resignation or termination. On Feb. 15, Rice punched out his girlfriend, Janay Palmer, in an Atlantic City casino elevator. Four days later, a video surfaced on TMZ.com showing Rice dragging his girlfriend's, who later became his wife, unconscious body outside the elevator. On July 24, Goodell suspended Rice for two games for the incident. To put it in perspective, an NFL player caught using a banned stimulant faces a four game suspension.

Public outcry was swift, but it reached a fever pitch on Sept. 8 when TMZ released a video showing Rice punching Palmer in the face. Goodell suspended Rice indefinitely and increased the minimum game suspension for first-time domestic abuse offenders to six games. It’s a revamp that was long overdue, but for Goodell and co., it’s a case of too little, too late. They had their chance to do the right thing and they blew it. It was only in the wake of overwhelming outrage that they took action.

Much has been made of the fact that the NFL may or may not have received the damning videotape before it went viral, but the question is, did they even need to see it at all to make the right call?

Since February, the images of Rice dragging his girlfriend’s body around have been widely seen. It’s not like explosive, new evidence has been brought to light in the wake of the new video. Everybody, including the NFL, knew that Rice knocked out his girlfriend in that elevator. That was all the evidence the NFL needed to make an impactful decision and they failed.

It’s a bungling on a profoundly massive scale by the biggest league in North America, and yet the problem goes deeper than this one incident.

The issue at hand, and the reason Goodell should resign, is because this incident has highlighted not only a history of leniency in the NFL when it comes to domestic violence, but also the alarming number of players arrested for these type of assaults. Since 2000 alone, the NFL has seen 83 of its players arrested for domestic violence.

FiveThirtyEight.com’s Benjamin Morris compared that number and found that NFL players are arrested for domestic assault around half as much as the rest of the population. In light of the average player income level (the top one per cent), Morris called the arrest rate, “downright extraordinary.”

The reason why domestic abuse is as prevalent as it is among players is a difficult subject to distill. There are many factors at play, be they socioeconomical or cultural, it’s a problem that goes beyond the NFL and is a reflection of the problem of domestic violence in our society. No one expects the NFL to be able to control the problem of domestic abuse, but what the league can control is the way they punish such incidents among its players. Looking at its history, the NFL has not taken this issue seriously.

Meghan Keneally of ABC News found that, of the players who have been accused of domestic violence since Goodell became commissioner, more than half never received any punishment from the league. Even when a player was punished by the league, Goodell has had a history of reducing suspensions. In 2013, A.J. Jefferson of the Minnesota Vikings was arrested for allegedly strangling his girlfriend. Jefferson was suspended for four games, a ban that was later lifted by Goodell. In 2010, one of the biggest stars of the league, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, was accused of sexually assaulting a college student, yet he was not arrested or charged. It was the second accusation of sexual assault leveled against him in as many years. Goodell suspended him for six games and then later reduced it to four.

This is a sample of the way that the NFL has treated its players when they’ve been accused of assaulting women. Before the infamous video hit the web, Rice was already on his way to being just another player in a long line of leniency for domestic abuse. In a press conference held on Sept.

19, Goodell vowed that, “We will get our house in order.” As the head of the house, and as the man who has personally overseen an era of tolerance for domestic abuse, his first order of business should be to resign.

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heavy bubbles HOW INSTANT COMMUNICATION IS KEEPING US WAITING Leah Scheitel × Editor-in-Chief If one thing is certain about our new technologyloving era that we live in, it’s that online communication isn’t going anywhere. Texts, Facebook messages and tweets have become the modern equivalent of love letters and notes passed between students in the hallways of schools. Not only are these new forms of communication killing romance (love letters versus an emoji that has heart eyes? Come on), but they’re also toying with our emotions and self-esteem. The read receipts and notifications of people writing back are ruining comfortable communication.

The new-aged communications of BBM, Facebook Messenger and iMessage now allow us to see when the recipient has read the message and when they are typing a new one. That little speech bubble icon that shows up when my crush is replying to my witty comment is modern day torture. It’s this long pause that raises insecurities that wouldn’t be there if these features didn’t exist. Did he think that was funny; was it cute enough; am I annoying him right now? – All questions that I ask during the time he’s writing something back to me.

I’m not the only one feeling the pressure of

× Sydney Parent the bubbles. In an article by The New York Times, writer Maryam Abolfazli is quoted saying “The three dots shown while someone is drafting a message in iMessage is quite possibly the most important source of eternal hope and ultimate letdown in our daily lives. It’s the modern-day version of watching paint dry, except you might be broken up with by the time the dots deliver.”

The ability to see if someone has read or is replying to a message is messing with our heads and confidence levels. If we don’t get an instant response, we feel cheated. If we can see that they

have read the message but aren’t replying, we feel rejected. And if we can see that they’re typing, we hold onto our precious phones with a death grip until the message is received. All of these emotions are unwarranted symptoms of instant messaging.

We are letting the technology and messages mean more than the actual human relationship forming with the person holding the phone. We care more about the phone than the person.

This isn’t the way it’s supposed to be. In the old days, lovers would write letters to each other that would often take months to get to its destination. Writing love letters was an activity, and because it was such an effort, there was more thought put into the words, and more meaning in them. Now I’m just thankful to get a response that’s more than two words long and with proper grammar. A perfectly placed period has become such a turn on.

When I first started dating in the early 2000s, with archaic instant communication, such as MSN Messenger and ICQ, it was easier. I asked my first boyfriend out over Hotmail, back when it was still cool. I used pink font and intentionally made it look cute to get his attention. Work and thought went into the email, but it worked.

When he sent me a reply five days later (which in today’s world would have been five emotionally turbulent days), I’d grabbed his interest. He

called my landline (yes, a home phone, remember those?) another five days later, and we went out a week after that. The turnaround time was longer, but it made me appreciate the messages that he did send me. And not knowing when or if he was going to reply allowed me to get back to the important thing – my life.

The problem is now that the typing awareness indicator (the proper name for the little bubbles) is acting as eye contact during a text conversation. As the principal architect and lead developer for BBM, Gary Klassen, said, “You know if they are paying attention.” And it also lets you know if they are not. We’re getting more comfortable with having serious conversations over text, email, and Facebook messenger. Hell, people have serious conversations over 140 character tweets. We’re left in situations where the next text could dictate everything about our relationship or conversation. And it’s a terrible feeling.

It’s time to take back proper communication.

It’s time to face a person instead of a phone or blinding computer screen and ask them if they want to do something on Friday night. It’s time put down the phone, let the bubbles mean nothing, and understand that if he isn’t replying, it’s probably because he’s working, or watching a movie, or living his life. And it’s time that I go and live mine too.

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one stands apart from the rest for Seinfeld actor Jason Alexander. The scene occurs immediately after the arbitrary and completely off-kilter killing-off of Alexander’s fiancée, Susan. Jerry, Kramer, Elaine, and George all react to her death with complete indifference. Though fans had a very mixed reaction—many actually writing to the network to complain of the “tastelessness” of its depiction— Alexander gave his opinion of it, shedding some light on the reaction: “I think the coldest moment ever played on a television show was the reaction of George and his

friends to the death of his fiancée. If it was funny, it was the ruler, and it was unquestionably funny.

Wrong and rude and dangerous—but funny.”

It was comedy, and elevated the show for its absurdity, and its daring. In that one scene is shown everything that good comedy needs, and everything that we need to maintain if we wish to continue the production of good comedy, to maintain a standard of autonomy and freedom in society, and continue to allow it to grow. Either that, or comedy will be more dead than Steve Irwin in a tank of sting rays.

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Over the course of the past century, public opinion has whipped so far from xenophobia and prejudices that the other extreme has been reached. Hurting feelings has been tacitly reinterpreted as an unspeakable evil and anyone who commits this evil is open season for public shaming. The trouble, though, is that in this environment of ‘no name calling’, the subversive is squashed before it gets considered. If Jonathan Swift published A Modest Proposal today, there’d be a hashtag trending by dinner time, designed to guilt trip people into signing an online petition demanding a public apology. Society can’t be challenged in this setting. People can’t challenge authority when jokes aren’t allowed to make people feel bad, and without offensive humour - real comedy - a culture too afraid of adversity to evolve, and too weak to ever improve is formed.

If a newborn puppy is deprived of painful stimulus, its motor-functions will be permanently stunted. Jim Jeffries said something offensive? Good, suck it up and analyze why. Chances are if humour never rubs people the wrong way, that’s because it’s palliative, not progressive, and palliative care always ends the same way.

From Jim Waters to Maddox to Seth MacFarlane, lynch mobs habitually form against comedians whose actions have been interpreted as offensive.

When a joke is labelled as obscene, the media and, subsequently, the public, become self-righteously upset on the “victim’s” behalf. They insist again and again how horrible it is to be offended and everyone gets to appropriate that suffering. Everyone proclaims their feelings hurt, and the masturbatory process of self-congratulation begins. It stymies comedy, forcing comedians to choose between being current or comforting, and speaking their mind or censoring themselves. People don’t need

to fetishize indignation, and they don’t need to find fault in every statement. The current trend of doing so brings more harm than good, and is a destructive form of censorship that undercuts free will and autonomy, the very stuff that makes us human.

It’s not about voicing controversial opinions, but about not rationalizing indignation as anything other than a cheap method of feeling good about oneself. Comedians are on the vanguard of culture, shaping it as they challenge outdated cultural norms - and they’ve been taken for granted by the rest of society. The first couple sharing the same bed, first reoccurring gay character and interracial couple, and the first African-American to land a starring role were all first broadcasted by sitcoms.

When people are offended by something said that’s new or contentious, it polarizes opinion, showing where and why interpretations divide, simultaneously identifying and simplifying problems. Following the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy, in which violent riots were incited due to the depiction of Muhammad in a Dutch Cartoon, Matt Stone and Trey Parker of South Park wrote an episode with Muhammad as a central character, meant as a statement against censorship and for free speech. They peppered the airwaves with teaser trailers, containing the tagline: “Will television executives take a stand for free speech? Or will Comedy Central puss out?” which was itself a joke meant to stimulate original thought on the situation. As Kyle Broflovski, one of the characters said in the same episode: “Either it’s all ok, or none of it is”. Unless you want a monarchic arbiter judging the spreading of opinion on a case by case basis, people can’t pick and choose when free speech can apply. Fault can be found in what a person says, but not in the fact that they’re saying it.

Seinfeld has been lauded as the greatest TV show of all time, having won Best Comedy in the form of an Emmy, Golden Globe, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. While full of many iconic moments,

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Canadiana CANADIAN CINEMA Rosanna Hempel × Columnist

Rosanna Hempel has worked and lived in nearly every province from coast to coast. Thanks in part to this, she has an intimate knowledge of Canada.

Her column will explore how Canada measures up to other countries on different topics. It’s basically a report card for the entire country.

It’s the season of film festivals in Canada with two major ones having just taken place in the last few weeks – notably the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and Montreal’s World Film Festival – and currently the Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) which runs until Oct. 10.

Over the years, TIFF especially has established itself as one of the most influential movie events of the year, having garnered a reputation for creating and foreshadowing Oscar buzz and even winners.

Among this season’s exciting line-up was Wild, starring Reese Witherspoon and directed by Canada’s own Jean-Marc Vallée – also director of the critically-acclaimed Dallas Buyer’s Club. Wild was also selected as the feature film for VIFF’s opening night gala on Sept. 25.

Other Canadian directors are also glowing under

the international spotlight, such as up-and-coming 25-year-old Quebec filmmaker, Xavier Dolan, whose films are frequently featured at the Cannes Film Festival. He won this year’s Jury Prize with Mommy, a film which was also selected as Canada’s 2015 entry in the Oscar category of Best Foreign Language Film earlier this month.

As Canadians, our idea of Canadian film is rather jumbled since our English-language cinema is so deeply embedded within the American film industry — so much that Canada is lumped into Hollywood’s domestic market. Our own “Hollywood North” mainly appears to accommodate American producers and films distributed by the US. We have countless Canadian-American co-productions and American movies filmed in Canada. We also see plenty of American films featuring Canadian talent, from David Cronenberg to Ryan Gosling, despite “all-Canadian-produced” feature films consistently collecting only a very small percentage of the domestic box office, such as 2.1 per cent in 1999, a figure that decreased to 1.6 per cent in 2005. Unfortunately, according to the Department of Canadian Heritage, this is the smallest percentage next to any comparable country. On the other hand, our French-language films are achieving far more success in comparison to their English-language counterparts, collecting 21.2 per cent in 2005, according to Telefilm Canada.

For decades now, one of the major overshadowing problems remains that Canada's film industry must compete with that of the US. Given that film and television production costs are similar in these

neighbouring countries, Canadian film studios often don’t possess a budget with a capacity that is able to compete with Hollywood blockbusters.

Many Canadian films showcase more drama- or quirky comedy-type plots, captivating specific art film niches rather than mass audiences. On top of that, American distribution networks mainly dominate Canadian movie theatres. In contrast to other mediums such as radio and television, there are no Canadian content regulations in movie theatres. Screening opportunities for Canadian films are restricted in that they are rarely showcased at smaller movie theatres and only gain exposure at film festivals or independent movie theatres.

Over the years, a number of initiatives, including the creation of the Canadian Film Development Corporation in 1967, now Telefilm Canada, and Perspective Canada at TIFF in the 1980s, were significant in the growth of English-Canadian films, the latter of which served as an important international platform for Canadian cinema. In the last decade, the Canadian government has also made an attempt to enhance audiences for Canadian films by establishing an annual $100 million fund.

Many critics also suggest that Canadian films frequently fail to meet their desired box office successes since their generic settings don’t make any Canadian ties, as opposed to other Australian, British, and American filmmakers who demonstrate their cultural heritage in film, often given away by their obvious native accents. However, a trend in Canadian cinema has been developing since the 1990s showing Canada’s diverse ethnicity, including some

work contributed by Canadian filmmakers such as Atom Egoyan and Deepa Mehta, who have focused on their Armenian and Indian backgrounds, respectively. On top of that, the early 2000s witnessed a revival of Canadian documentaries with notable productions showcasing this country’s political and social identity, contrasting with that of the US, including Albert Nerenberg’s Escape to Canada.

In the past two decades especially, Canada has been building a strong foundation for a film industry in this country. Although Quebec shows a relatively successful domestic industry in comparison to its English-language counterpart, the latter calls for more films with an obvious Canadian identity and public support. We could build audiences for Canadian films by establishing Canadian content regulations, which would lend them more screening opportunities in our movie theatres. Supporting our films rather than rejecting them because they don’t have the same appeal as Hollywood blockbusters, which admittedly we probably do more often than we would like to acknowledge, may be crucial to establishing more mainstream Canadian English-language films across Canada. That being said, support your local movie industry this year at VIFF, as there is no denying that we are home to an impressive community of actors, directors and writers, among many others.

because people are travelled, and they are exposed to things. There is a desire for things, but we don’t necessarily have it here yet, it’s an interesting stage in our city’s development,” explains Litchfield.

The retail space itself is stunning, concrete walls and black steel shelves line either side of the shop.

Minimal décor lets the products speak for themselves, and this is something Litchfield really loves about his space. “I like the vibe of this place, I like concrete, and I think concrete is beautiful and I actually find it quite warm,” he says, “I don’t want a big glossy space that wouldn’t suit my aesthetic.”

It may seem out of the ordinary, but one of the first things to note when you enter the store is the floor.

A wide deep-blue painted strip carries your eyes down the middle of the concrete floor — it’s one of the few decorations in the store and carries a lot of meaning to Litchfield. “[It] was painted by my aunt, she is a muralist. So when I got the space, I knew I wanted a big piece of Japanese fabric down the middle. I asked her to come and paint it.” The finished piece turned out to be immaculate, and the floor completes the entire décor of the store.

Whether it’s the unique product, the beautiful interior or simply the good vibes that bring you into the Litchfield shop, you are likely to always discover something new. Litchfield has a cool way of living, maybe something some of us even aspire to attain, and we’re lucky he is sharing it through his shop. After all the interrogating, I asked Litchfield what the coolest thing about owning a store is. He replied simply, “I really enjoy meeting people, I get to meet a lot of people. Gastown gets some really interesting people coming through, so

I really enjoy that aspect. It’s a lot of work, and it is hard, but I don’t kid myself. I’m lucky I get to find neat stuff, that’s really fun.” Knowing this, the perception of the shop seems far from intimidating, but welcoming on many levels. Hand-shaking aside, you can keep an eye out for an exclusive Litchfield brand in the near future, and a constant circulation of new product on the shelves. All in all, the Litchfield shop is something special, and gets an 11/10 in my books.

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The Litchfield store is dreamy, the type of shop that is hard leave once both feet are in the door. It’s a store that requires a large amount of time to examine every product down to the last chopstick. Located on Water Street in Gastown, Jonathon Litchfield has created a store that radiates beauty in every way. From each hand-picked product, it’s easy to tell that he has put his passion into the shop.

The Litchfield shop opened in the late months of 2013. And although it has only been around for just under a year, it has gained recognition fast.

Growing up in both Vancouver and Japan, Litchfield has always felt inspired by the city. As he says, “there is so much latitude for creativity in a large city. The population really supports it, and I think that people feel free to express themselves more and they’ll be less judged.” This urban influence radiates throughout the shop, even if some of the products are sourced from more remote locations.

Along with the general city vibe, a Japanese aesthetic is a major focus within the store. Litchfield lived in Japan for three years as a child and quickly

accommodated the Japanese way of life. He mentions that this had a huge impact on him in his youth, and he loves to share a bit of that culture with others through the products in his shop.

The product selection in Litchfield is like nothing I had ever seen before. This may be because half of the goods aren’t sold anywhere else in Canada or because I had never been introduced into this unique way of life. The store selection ranges from pristine cotton notebooks, to modern Japanese cookware, to hand-woven hammock chairs.

Although clothing is not a main focus within the shop, the array of interesting housewares is what makes Litchfield different. With such an array of interesting merchandise, it’s easy to wonder where he discovers these types of things. Many of the items are found during his travels, through research, and simply because he grew up with something similar in his house. His family aesthetic, mostly created by his mother, helps Litchfield keep searching for these products that feel so good. “She created a home where things were edited, it was clean, [and] it had a very peaceful feeling without being contrived. She built a home that felt good, as well as looked beautiful,” he says of his mother’s influence. With all of these aspects in mind, Litchfield felt he was living a different way than many others, and hoped he could bring a bit of it to others’ lives.

The location of the Litchfield shop seems more than perfect. As Gastown grows in culture and aesthetics, Litchfield is happy he gets to play a part in this. “As a city I think we are developing in an interesting way. I think it’s a cool time for us

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Ben Bengtson × Columnist Ben Bengtson is interested in all things media, but mostly how corporations are a part of our modern media way of life. Through his column, The Mediator, Ben will explore what aspects of media are thriving while others are decaying to change. His favourite movie is Dazed and Confused, and we think that's pretty cool.

Every scene changes eventually. The gaming scene, for so long seen as the landscape of basement dwellers and male nerds, is currently in the midst of its own diverse transformation.

Or maybe it’s always been diverse and people are only now waking up to the fact. Either way, #GamerGate, the hashtag that’s sparked a social media firestorm and a bevy of online think pieces, has been particularly interesting to watch. It’s remarkable witnessing an entire industry – an entire medium – critique itself. And because of social media, these criticisms are leveled publically for all of us to observe and consider for ourselves. No longer does the conceit of the “Gamer Boy” stand true: women are also playing video games, and have been for a long time.

Not only women, but LGBTQ, racialized people, and differently-abled individuals have been gaming as well. While #GamerGate attempts to expose certain biases between gaming journalists and developers, this so-called “movement” is rooted in homophobic, regressive, and, most prevalently, sexist attitudes that depict not only a tired attitude, but an industry experiencing an identity crisis. #GamerGate isn’t a proper depiction of the average gamer because there isn’t an average gamer – not anymore. Ours is an era of Angry Birds, Candy Crush and Minecraft, which is a game enjoyed by both young children and adults. A gamer is simply anyone that plays a game, regardless of politics, sexual orientation,

Staff Eddy UP IN SMOKE × Features Editor When I was young and impressionable, I was a sucker for school assemblies, and a sponge for messages in ad campaigns. I bought anything the key speakers sold me and drank it down as truth. When public speakers would preach about the evils of smoking and recreational drugs, I was excitedly taking notes. I became an advocate of any cause that passed through the gymnasium. I sobbed at the sight of a cigarette on the lips of other teenagers. When friends of mine told me they were beginning to experiment with drugs, I threw myself down to the ground in dramatic fashion and asked no one in particular “Why?! Weren’t you at that assembly?!”

My mother deserves some credit for her yearly speech on drugs and cigarettes. Kind of like a secret holiday, my mother would wait for a dinner with my sister and I gathered between our forks and spoons and look at us and casually announce, “I never smoked. I never did drugs. And neither

or opinion. The proponents of #GamerGate appear upset over two things: the improper relationship between gamers, journalists and developers, and the apparent direction of gaming journalism that focuses on politicizing certain issues rather than simply “reviewing” the games.

On Aug. 16, popular video game developer, Zoe Quinn, was exploited online, effectively starting the #GamerGate craze. Quinn, creator of the smash indie hit Depression Quest, was victimized in a maniacal online tirade by her ex-boyfriend, who claimed that she’d cheated on him several times. Most shocking was the allegation that Quinn’s supposed infidelities occurred with several important members of the gaming industry. As petty as this guy’s online rant was, it was contentious for what it implied about the industry: that Quinn and her game, Depression Quest, were able to gain popularity through the

exchange of sex. I find this entire notion ridiculous, and that Quinn should be slut-shamed and judged because of her suspected private endeavours is not acceptable. It’s a shame, too: wanting to have a serious conversation about nepotism and collusion in the gaming industry would have been a useful conversation. But #GamerGate’s sexist and overall regressive image makes having a serious conversation about the industry seem laughable and impossible.

While the intention of #GamerGate was to “reclaim” gamer culture, the proponents of this movement and their toxic language have experienced an outcry from the media. Erik Kain, a writer for Forbes, said that during the rising malcontent that came with #GamerGate the numerous think pieces and articles written by various publications more or less stated “that the age of the ‘gamer’ was over”. The face of gamer nation

will you.” That was it — but it made perfect sense to my young, impressionable mind. They say that children of smokers and addicts are twice as likely to become smokers, alcoholics or drug users.

Statistically, I was in a much better position than some other kids my age. Neither of my parents smoked or mentioned drug use in the house. I never really questioned our yearly drug and cigarette talk — that was, until later in life when I would deem myself a smoker.

When I meet people who began smoking in high school, I have to envy them. When you’re teenaged, you have a much better excuse: you’re stupid. I, on the other hand, reached out for my first cigarette at age 21 outside of Celebrities night club. Still young but far from stupid, I held that stick between my fingers knowing full well it was addictive, causes cancer, and doesn’t really have any of the fun effects that alcohol or drugs do.

I never for a moment stopped to consider myself becoming addicted. With my closest friends being smokers and in a liquid cocaine haze (that’s a drink, by the way) it seemed entirely harmless. I took that first drag staggering on the street and in that moment I made the best frienemy.

Initially, it was just a weekend thing, a pal that only accompanied me to bars and parties. When alcohol began to flow, tobacco would call to me,

stroking its smoky finger up my spine. As with most relationships however, being solely drinking buddies would no longer suffice. I loved our five minute catch up sessions after a long shift at a thankless job. The stress of the day would evaporate into the air with every deep satisfying inhale.

Smoking became an excuse to take a walk outside, something to do on my morning march to the bus stop, an excellent companion to coffee and the perfect partner in post-coital cool downs. Our relationship spiralled into something serious. We couldn’t seem to get enough of each other.

Smoking was my crutch. Every fit of anxiety could be cured with a cigarette and other things simply lost their novelty without one. It seemed as though overnight I had become addicted to cigarettes without being entirely aware of what was happening. I was buying the packs, spending countless dollars at the gas station on my accidental habit. All those things that I had absorbed as an outspoken anti-smoking teen activist, although not forgotten, had lost their ability to fight the addiction. The pull of a cigarette felt a lot better than dealing without them. Throwing my money down my blackened lungs seemed a lot easier than stopping. And that was true — smoking had become a lot easier than not smoking.

Over the years, I continued to playfully re-

mind myself I would not be a smoker forever — I could quit at any time. But the longer the dance with cigarettes, the harder it was to break from their embrace. Sometimes smoking seemed utterly gross, but the addiction was thick, all encompassing. I suffered from horrible bronchitis last year and even though I could barely breathe and my lungs would gurgle and spit, I couldn’t resist the occasional cigarette. Even when it really hurt. It hurt more however, realizing that seven years had gone by and my addiction to smoking had completely gained control of me. It’s hard to look smart when you’re indulging in something so obviously bad for you. It’s hard to quit once you’ve dug yourself in so deep.

I love smoking. I love the cigarette I smoke when I’m coming out of work, and I adore the cigarette I have with our other mutual best pal, red wine. I love the conversational cigarettes I have with fellow smokers out in Gastown in the morning hours. But I’m quitting because nothing should have control of your life, or waste the small amount of money you do make, and it’s some brand of bullshit when you can’t imagine writing without a smoke in your hand. My relationship with smoking has outlasted any relationship I’ve had with a man, and that’s a problem.

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is changing. Publications and experts have suggested that gamers as we’ve so often stereotyped them – white, male nerds with deep-rooted fears of women and reality – are going extinct. This is not necessarily because of #GamerGate. This intolerant movement has backfired on itself, instead exposing the face of gaming’s true audience – not gamers as vicious, angry bigots, but as diverse, multifaceted individuals. The fact that the reality can inspire such online vitriol only proves the latter.

Gaming journalists rushed to defend their profession, to decry accusations of collusion and corruption, but this came at cost. Game critic Dan Golding, for example, wrote on his blog that “When videogames changed, the gamer identity did not stretch, and so it has been broken”. While there’s some truth to this, I also find this sentiment rather condescending to the broad gaming audience. It’s problematic to lump everyone who plays, purchases or comments on games into the same group, just as it’s not a good idea for the #GamerGate cohort to attack the Social Justice Warriors that are looking to see greater diversity and inclusiveness within the industry.

Gamer culture should strive for increased social and cultural representation. All industries should. But instead of placing blame entirely on the heels of gamers and their “medieval” attitudes, I would advocate for diversity to find its footing within the games themselves. Assassins Creed, Grand Theft Auto, and Call of Duty might be fun to play, but they also project an image of society that doesn’t view women as important and that fuels an unrealistic, hypermasculine image of men that can never actually be achieved. It should be the role of developers, not gamers or journalists, to change the way the industry is seen. It’s true that indie developers have the ability to create worlds with greater social awareness and imagination than the ‘AAA’ developers do. However, until we give developers the opportunity to change minds, the outdated attitudes of #GamerGate risk overshadowing any progress.

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Aside from being full time good looking what else does Emma do? We had the chance to catch up with her and ask a few questions.

Emma Magirescu is a 3rd year Jazz Studies student who specializes in singing. We didn’t actually find her. Instead, it was her voice that found us, and it all happened by a lucky encounter at the international student mixer. She does music composition and also plays the piano. Outside of school, Emma plays in indie band, The Farewell Folks, they’re currently in the process of working on their album, which Emma hopes to put out by next year.

“I’m from Kelowna, so I used to busk more in Kelowna. I find it really hard to busk in Vancouver, there’s a lot of licensing and permits,” she says.

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tures students from the communications program and the Illustration/Design: Elements & Application (IDEA) program.

CAA is one of the more focused of the business associations, which can be related to both the accounting field and what they are focused on providing students from CapU. The goals of CAA are to promote the accounting stream, facilitate student networking both internal and external, and to educate accounting student in the recruitment process of their field. According to Zach Renwick, president of CAA, “events are open to all students, although the focus is accounting.” In addition to the networking and social events the CAA is helping students in accounting classes by facilitating a tutoring program along with an accounting case competition that is set to take place in early November.

Although HRMA focuses on Human Resources their events range from a wide variety and cater to the entire campus. Last year HRMA assisted the United Way with a clothing drive, brought in speakers to discuss several topics, and promoted the Leaders of Tomorrow mentorship program, which pairs soon to be graduates with professionals in their field of interest.

One thing that is consistent throughout the business associations, along with every other one, is they encourage students to get involved. “Don’t be afraid to commit or lead,” says Leigh Fisher, CUBES copresident, while his counterpart Rahim Rajani, says, “Make the most of it, take advantage and go to events, join a club.”

× Carlo Javier

Musical Inspiration: “Radiohead.”

Favourite flavour of Ice Cream: “Mint Chocolate Chip” Favourite Harry Potter Book: “The Deathly Hallows. I went camping with my friend and we stayed in the car for four days straight and just read it, we would only come out for meals.”

Favourite non-jazz studies class: “I’m really enjoying creative writing right now.”

Favourite pizza: Pepperoni, or a really good Italian pizza if I was going to be fancy Favourite Animated Movie: “Up.” Go to Karaoke song: “I’d love to do one of those hip hop karaoke, maybe ‘Trapped in the Closet’.”

× All photos by Zoltan Ilku

Something that both new and returning students to Capilano University should know is that there are a wide variety of associations and groups on campus for students. The business students have at total of eight different groups, each focused on a specific area of business studies.

These associations include, the Capilano Undergraduate Business Enterprise of Students (CUBES), the Case Competition Association (CCA), the Human Resource Management Association (HRMA), the International Business Association (IBA), the Marketing Association of Capilano Students (MACS), Capilano Investment Association (CIA) Capilano Accounting Association (CAA), and the Small Business Association (SBA).

One of the largest obstacles for the associations is overcoming the general belief that they are restricted for students in the business program.

Nancy Tran, the Career Development Officer for the Business and Professional Studies department, works with the business associations. “There has been a larger attempt at reaching out to other departments on campus, with events like the New Student Orientation and EngageU,” says Tran.

The idea that the business associations are exclusive cannot be further from the truth. Although some of the groups may not be appealing to everyone they are not exclusive by any means.

There is a current action being taken by many of the groups to become more inclusive and engaging to students outside their designation. Not only are the groups working together on a higher level, some are also looking at working with student groups from different areas of study.

At the head of the business associations is CUBES, the group considered the “umbrella organization” of the other business associations. Their main focus is to ensure that all of the other associations area being looked after as well as host a variety of events that include the other associations throughout the year for students from across the campus to be involved in.

The focus of many CUBES events is to connect students with the business world off campus, often bringing in business professionals for Q+A sessions or their EngageU event which brings the university support services and associations to one area for students. Their goal for this year is to promote networking both internally at CapU and externally, along with engaging students through experiences.

MACS, on the other hand, is one of the more visible assocations on campus. “MACS provides opportunities for students across campus to come together to apply their skills outside the classroom in a creative education environment,” says Arianne Liu, president of MACS. A continual theme of the MACS events is networking and personal development, one of their goals is to bring students from the business program as well as students from other programs together. Currently, the MACS team fea-

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Transit Companions

A Mid-Summer Night

UR Just A Lil' Scruffy

I saw a Female, I am a Male When: September 9, 2014 Where: Lonsdale Quay

I saw a Female, I am a Male When: September 17, 2014 Where: The goddamned bus

I saw a Female, I am a Male When: August 22, 2014 Where: My garden at night

I saw a Male, I am a Male When: September 20, 2014 Where: Birch building cafeteria

I like that when you smile you actually make eye contact. Big mistake, as I took notice. You have a tattoo on your shoulder of a kitten-sized tiger, medium-length sandy blonde hair and green eyes, I know because I looked right into them. Anyway I ended up taking the same bus as you. I wish I got your name. Would you be down to hang out?

I noticed you live near a Blenz. We can get coffee together. No pressure.

YOU: Indie-movie-lookin’ brunette with thick glasses and a grandpa’s hat, reading a book on the bus because you hate interacting with humans.

ME: Freckled-skin like a leper, glaringly red Hobobeard and dead eyes, standing on the bus like a chump.

Are you desperate enough to both read and respond to this? Let’s get coffee then rub genitals together.

Who are you and what the fuck are you doing?

Stop it.

You kept forcing eye contact with the people who sat near you and muttering into your hands like you were holding an injured bird, which is really hot. But you weren’t holding a bird. Turns out it was nothing but that doesn’t matter. I think your man-bun is really cute. Do you like coffee?

Flannel Dude, Where R U?

Backseat Admirer

Broody Cutie

I saw a Male, I am a Female When: September 33, 2014 Where: Reality Equinox in FIR building

I saw a Female, I am a Female When: September 12th, 2014 Where: Anthropology 100, CEDAR building

I saw a Male, I am a Female When: September 14, 2014 Where: Phibbs Exchange

I’m the redhead who sits in the back of the class. I heard you speak up in class during the discussion on gender being a societal construct. You also look like Emma Watson. Would you care to talk about it over coffee? Nothing signifies the act of sex better than a black liquid diuretic.

You stood alone looking into the horizon like some sort of person who is super deep and thinks about stuff in an abstract spiritual manner. You had hair like that popular British celebrity and skin just as greasy. What are your teeth like? Anyway, I’m into it. Maybe we can grab coffee sometime?

I noticed you, slim and wearing flannel, walking out of a professor’s office in the English department – the same professor I was just about to meet with. I assumed you were just finishing a meeting with the professor but when I went to the door it was locked. In fact it wasn’t even a door. It was just a painting of a door. All the doors are painted on!

I’ve been trapped here for three days now. I’ve eaten nothing but post-it-note paper, a bunch of that replacement graphite that goes in mechanical pencils and stale coffee that never seems to run out.

I fold the yellow paper squares into triangles and

draw circles on them to allow myself the illusion that I’m eating pizza and not chemically coloured paper.

I keep seeing your face in the corner of my eye, but when I look there is no one. I wish I got your name or at least said something to you that first time I saw you… especially since you were the last soul I’ve seen in the past three days. I really need help getting out of here, Flannel Dude, how did you get out? Did you make this happen? Or are you locked in here too? If that is the case, then do you wanna grab some stale coffee?

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I swear I did my douchebag radar research before even considering him. I even asked my friends what kind of guy he was and he sounded promising. So I arrived at his house, ready and excited for a movie date. He pulled the “I need to go take a shower” card on me, so I knew right away he just wanted to walk out half naked in a towel. Dudes.

He walked out with his towel around his waist, and started conversing with me. Maybe complimenting his upper body wasn’t a good idea, because it gave him a “good idea.” He came and took a seat beside me, and I was staring at his gorgeous blue eyes. We were sitting and chatting for about 30 minutes before I had noticed and realized out of the corner of my eye that this whole time he had been completely, naked. And hard. “It’s hard for you,” he said. I replied, “this is going to be hard for you,” and walked out.

I’m not hit on very often. Either that or I just don’t seem to notice it when I am. On one particular instance I was roaming Lonsdale Quay on a Saturday night with a handful of friends. We’d just had a few rounds of bowling and had a couple shots of FroYo’s when two guys who must have been university students – which was utterly terrifying for me, the sixteen-year-old that I was – came up to us. One was obviously drunk, reeling in fact, and proceeded to tell me countless times how cute I was. “Don't wanna sound stooped, but you are soo f*cking cute!” Several references were made to Miley Cyrus and her wrecking ball while I stood there trying to think of an excuse to leave with my friends who were flushing bright red and shuffling their feet rather awkwardly at the holdup.

Trying to sidle away and leave him with his rather amused and thankfully sober friend didn’t exactly earn me an earful of good comments from him either. “Where d’ya think you're goin cutie?” I remember him yelling as my friends and I made a dash for the Quay. I guess what I’m trying to say is, why can’t they talk while sober?

Girls aren’t the only ones who can be made very uncomfortable by unwanted advances. Though you could argue that I had it coming, given that I was at a club on a Tuesday, I still didn’t expect my friend and I to be followed around by two 38-yearold mothers. It started with an unexpected ass-grab — something I’m not explicitly opposed to — but when I turned around, I knew it wasn’t going to work out. We politely talked to the two ladies for a few minutes before leaving, but no matter where we went that night, those two women found us.

Not only would they interrupt the conversation, but they’d be more forward every time, with fantastic pickup lines such as “Haven’t you always wanted a MILF?” The night ended with the two of them approaching us outside the club asking if we were going to cab home with them. Now, if you ever want to pick up a student, offering to pay for anything is a great way to do it. But on that night I decided that walking two hours to get home was a less regrettable decision then sneaking out early the next morning so she could drive her kid to school.

It’s really hard to narrow down a time you got hit on when you get hit on all the time. But, if I can only tell just one, it would have to be about my favourite time. It was August of 2012, and I was at Remmington’s, a male strip club in downtown Toronto. One leather-clad, shirtless man handed me an iPhone before pointing to the male dancer on stage. There was a note in the form of a new text that read: “I want my children to have your dimples. When can we make babies that look like you?” The intention was for me to be romanced and write my number in the text to send it to myself, thus starting a budding relationship and an army of children. After blushing, and making eye contact with the dancer with his dong out, he pulled me closer to the stage, and began dancing just for me. I have never had more intense eye contact with a male performer, nor do I think I really want to again. At the end, Devina, the drag queen hostess, said of that performance, “Girl, that man was dancing just for you. What did you do to get that?” I had dimples, Devina. Dimples and wideset, child bearing hips.

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